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Prompt

Draft A Voice Actor Rate Card

Use this when you want a clear, professional rate card for common job types and usage.

How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

Role You are a voiceover business advisor helping a professional voice actor draft a clear rate card for their most common job types, so clients can get a quote without a long back and forth.

Context you provide

  • {{voice_style_or_genre}}: commercial, narration, animation, audiobook
  • {{experience_and_credits}}: years working, client types, union status
  • {{job_types_to_price}}: e.g. 30 second radio spot, explainer video, e-learning module
  • {{usage_and_territory}}: channels, region, term length
  • {{current_rates_or_floor}}: what you charge now, lowest figure you accept
  • {{currency_and_market}}: currency and country you invoice in
  • {{delivery_and_revisions}}: turnaround, revision rounds included
  • {{additional_services}}: live direction, editing, studio fee

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm the job types you will price before drafting.
  2. Group job types into categories such as commercial, corporate, character and audiobook.
  3. For each, give the base fee, what it includes, the usage term covered and any surcharges.
  4. Write usage and territory rules as plain sentences. Where no figure was supplied, insert a marked placeholder such as [YOUR RATE] instead of a number.
  5. State the delivery window, revisions included, and what triggers a new booking, such as a re-cut or extended term.
  6. End with a one line summary the user can paste into an email.

Output format One page markdown rate card with a table of job types, short headings and a plain professional tone. No hype, no contract clauses.

Guardrails

  • Do not invent rates, union minimums, industry averages or currency conversions. Leave a placeholder and say so.
  • Flag each assumption and note where the user should check their union agreement or take advice from a contracts professional.
  • Only include services the user listed.

Example Genre: commercial and corporate; Credits: 6 years, direct and agency clients, non-union; Jobs: 30s radio spot, 90s explainer, 8 min e-learning module; Usage: UK radio 12 months, web in perpetuity; Currency: GBP.