Copywriting for SEO cost: UK Writer Pay Benchmark

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through the estate's fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

3 of the 4 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 1 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 8 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 33 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

Derivation as chartered: the ONS ASHE median gross weekly and hourly pay for SOC 3412 (authors, writers and translators), GB and by region, set beside the trade body's own surveyed freelance day rate and the advertised contract median; from those, the implied hourly cost of a writer's time against the per-word and per-page prices the index reads, which is what says whether a quote is a normal price or an outlier.

33 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.