How much is your time worth? Is your free time worth $20 per hour? $50 per hour? These are the kinds of questions you need to ask yourself so that you don’t get put off when an editor rejects your proposed rate. But you can’t do this unless you have the funds to pay them fairly. So, you should hire an editor if you need to free up your valuable. One rule of thumb that editors use is to charge based on the final run-time of the video, so a three-and-a-half-minute video would cost 3.5 times their hourly rate. Depending on complexity, a normal YouTube video edit could cost anywhere from $50 to several hundred dollars. Sometimes they charge a flat rate for certain types of videos. How much you should pay your editor depends on several factors, which we’ll talk about more later.

Meanwhile, Upwork collects data about all video editing, and cites anywhere from $20 to $100 per hour depending on skill level. According to ZipRecruiter, the average hourly rate for YouTube video editors in the US is $23 per hour.

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