Editors in North America can be hired for anywhere from $25 an hour to north of $60 an hour, which is reasonable compared to a lawyer, CPA or a plumber, but it’s far from free. Some editors will tell you…
A lot of editors charge by the hour, so people hiring them naturally wonder how long it’ll take an editor to clean up their copy. And the answer is unsatisfactory, because it’s almost universally: “It depends.”
Text publishing has three main varieties of editors: substantive editors, copy editors and proofreaders. Here’s how each job shakes out: Substantive editors Substantive editors have the unenviable task of reading writers’ first drafts, then parrying a series of revisions that…