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I am: Freelance Writer / United States 
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firewriter   
Mar 18, 2015

Yeah, I'm making more as I learn about the biz. I dig what you are saying MeoKhan, but there has to be a floor for writer's pay that is a bit more than 10 bucks per page. The one company I worked for had it set up so that it was nearly impossible to either not get penalized or get hit up with endless revisions. As far as I could tell, they had no problem retaining writers in this system. But that's a another topic for another time.

I'm still curious about quintuple's "lower side of price" and how he/she mates this with competency.
firewriter   
Mar 17, 2015

You can find plenty of writers on the middle agency sites like eLance and the like. Reddit also has HireaWriter sub. You can also vet the writer with a simple Skype conversation. Some of the few clients I've pulled in have asked for a Skype conversation to verify my native English status.

Like Major said, price is a missing key component to answering you question. With that said, I've seen American writers work for as low as $9 per page on some of the company sites. I've reluctantly worked for that little in the past.
firewriter   
Mar 15, 2015

I've had several instances where my material has been changed (without a careful reading) so that it reads incorrectly or the meaning has been changed.

It can be worse that that. I've had "managing editors" at a certain unnamed company demand incorrect changes on other incorrect changes under the threat of being financially penalized. The compounding stupidity is breath taking.
firewriter   
Mar 15, 2015

I am not generalizing but being in this industry has taught me one thing: You never know who's who.

I've been doing the company thing for a while now and have begun to venture out into the freelance world. I still don't get why nearly everybody in the business goes to such great lengths to remain anonymous? I get why companies and scammers do it, but what about those that seem to be doing legitimate business transactions?