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
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- 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
- Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm the job types you will price before drafting.
- Group job types into categories such as commercial, corporate, character and audiobook.
- For each, give the base fee, what it includes, the usage term covered and any surcharges.
- 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.
- State the delivery window, revisions included, and what triggers a new booking, such as a re-cut or extended term.
- 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.