Estimate designer cost separately from strategy and copy
Design is only one layer of a deck. This page helps you price the designer separately from the strategy, copy and revision work, so you know what design alone is costing you.
Design is not the whole deck
A designer turns a clear story into clean slides. That is valuable, but it is not the same as deciding what the story is, writing the copy, or pulling the numbers. When those get bundled into one quote, it is hard to tell what design actually costs.
Separating design from the other layers also tells you whether your deck problem is really a design problem, or a story problem wearing a design costume.
What drives designer cost
- Number of slides and how custom each is
- Whether assets, charts and icons are provided or created
- Brand system work versus applying an existing one
- Revision rounds on layout and polish
- Timeline and how urgent the turnaround is
Price design on its own
In the calculator, the design field is separate from strategy, copy, research and revisions. Enter your own designer pricing there and the rest in their own fields, and you get a clean view of what design contributes to the total.
Common questions
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