Sell Video Editing Services Online With Video Editing Gigs Priced as Tiers
Package shorts, five-minute edits and YouTube videos into three fixed tiers with the finished length, revision rounds and turnaround written down. A creator or brand reads the scope, picks a tier and sends the order, without a quote thread or a discovery call first.
Short-form video editing
Video Editing
Your three tiers
BASIC
$100
1 short, 1 camera, captions, 2-day delivery
STANDARD
$275
3 shorts, hook and captions, 2 revisions
Most popular
PREMIUM
$800
8 shorts a month, thumbnails, 48-hour turnaround
Every seller sets their own scope, delivery time, and price.
Selling video editing services online works best as fixed tiers priced per finished minute, with the number of cameras, captions, revision rounds and turnaround written down before the client messages you. Upwork's own rule of thumb is one to four hours of editing per finished minute, and employed US film and video editors earn a median of $36.26 an hour, $75,420 a year (BLS, May 2025). A US freelancer who wants to take that home has to bill about $100 an hour on an 8% platform, which prices a 60-second short at $100 to $400 and a five-minute video at $500 to $2,000. On a $500 edit, where you sell it changes what you keep: $400 on Fiverr, $450 on Upwork at a 10% talent fee, $460 on our Starter plan, $485 on Studio, and $500 on Contra, where the client pays a $15 fee instead.
Why sell here
Why sell video editing on FreelanceNation
Your gig page is your marketing. Fiverr has the marketplace but a faceless URL. Stan and Linktree give you a page with no buyers behind it. Here you get both, at a fairer take.
A shareable, SEO gig page
Your video editing gig is a public page built to be posted on social and to rank in Google, so buyers find you by search and by share.
A marketplace behind it
Every share funnels buyers into the whole marketplace, and the marketplace sends new buyers who search your category back to your gig.
A fairer take
Keep more of every sale than the 20% or more you pay on legacy marketplaces. Fixed tiers, order requests by email, your page.
What you can sell
Video Editing gigs that sell well here
Package any of these into Basic, Standard, and Premium tiers buyers can order in two clicks.
How it works
From video editing gig to growing marketplace
Package your tiers
Turn your video editing service into Basic, Standard, and Premium with set prices, delivery times, and clear scope. No bidding, no proposals.
Share your gig page
Post one beautiful, SEO-ranking link on your socials and link in bio. It loads fast, renders perfect share cards, and takes orders.
Buyers discover and order
Followers pick a tier and send an order request in two clicks, straight to your inbox with the buyer as reply-to. The buyers who do not still discover the marketplace, which sends new buyers back to your gig.
Your buyers are creators, brands, and agencies who search for video editing and order a fixed tier without the back-and-forth.
Benchmarks
What video editing work pays in the US in 2026
Every row names its source. Employed figures are medians or averages for staff editors and behave like a floor; the Upwork rows describe what freelancers list across every country, not what any one project clears.
| Benchmark | Rate | Source and sample |
|---|---|---|
| Film and video editors, employed US median | $36.26/hr, $75,420/yr | BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, May 2025 wages; 39,400 jobs, 35% self-employed |
| Film and video editors, employed top 10% | Over $71.42/hr, $148,550/yr | BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, May 2025 wages |
| Video editor, employed US average from job postings | $35.76/hr | Indeed, 1.2k salaries, range $15.36 to $83.25, updated 26 July 2026 |
| Video editors on Upwork, median band | $10 to $60/hr | Upwork's video editor cost page, archived March 2026 |
| Upwork entry, intermediate and expert bands | $15 to $30, $30 to $60, $60 to $150+/hr | Upwork's video editor cost page, archived March 2026 |
| Editing time per finished minute | 1 to 4 hours | Upwork's video editor cost page, archived March 2026 |
| $500 five-minute edit on Fiverr | You keep $400, client pays $527.50 | 20% seller fee plus 5.5% buyer service fee, Fiverr help center |
| $500 five-minute edit on Upwork | You keep $450, client pays $525 | 10% talent fee (Upwork's own example, 0% to 15% range) plus 5% client marketplace fee |
| $500 five-minute edit on FreelanceNation Starter | You keep $460, client pays $500 | 8% take rate, $9 a month, no client fee |
| $500 five-minute edit on Contra | You keep $500, client pays $515 | Commission-free for the editor; $15 client payment fee, $29 above $500, contra.com/pricing |
Why the marketplace hourly rate is the wrong anchor for a US video editor
Three published numbers describe the same job and they do not agree. The federal median for employed film and video editors is $36.26 an hour. Indeed's average across 1.2k job postings is $35.76. Upwork tells clients a video editor costs $10 to $60 an hour at the median, with entry-level editors at $15 to $30. Bill $30, the top of that entry band, full time as a freelancer and after a 10% talent fee, $13,200 of software, drives and health cover, and self-employment tax, about $14,000 a year is left. Now price the deliverable instead of the hour. Upwork's own rule is one to four hours of editing per finished minute, so a five-minute video is 5 to 20 hours of work. At $100 an hour, the rate a US editor needs to clear the employed median once tax and unbilled time are counted, that is $500 to $2,000, and a client comparing five-minute edits at $500 is comparing outcomes, not your hourly rate. The editors who clear the median are the ones who stop quoting hours and sell a named package, per short or per video, with the footage requirements written into the tier.
Questions sellers ask
Video Editing gig work, answered
How do I sell video editing services?
Sell video editing services as fixed tiers priced per finished minute and aimed at one kind of client. Write down the finished length, cameras, captions, music, revision rounds, turnaround and price for three tiers, publish them on a page a client can order from, then share that link where those creators and brands already look. A named package for podcast clips or YouTube edits converts better than a general offer to edit video.
Where can I sell video editing services?
You can sell video editing services on Fiverr, Upwork, Contra and Guru, or from a gig page you control. They differ in fees and in how clients find you. On a $500 five-minute edit you keep between $400 on Fiverr and $500 on Contra; on our Starter plan you keep $460 and the client pays no fee.
How much should I charge for video editing?
Charge the rate that clears the income you need after fees and self-employment tax, which for the US median of $75,420 is about $100 an hour on an 8% platform or $114 on Fiverr. Then price per project using Upwork's one to four hours per finished minute: a 60-second short is $100 to $400 and a five-minute video is $500 to $2,000 at $100 an hour.
What should a video editing gig include?
A video editing gig should state the finished length, how many cameras and how much raw footage it covers, whether captions, music licensing, color correction, thumbnails and motion graphics are included, the number of revision rounds, the delivery formats and aspect ratios, and the turnaround. Anything not written into the tier becomes an unpaid argument later.
Is Fiverr good for video editing?
Fiverr is useful for small, clearly scoped editing packages when you need buyers you cannot reach yet. It is the most expensive venue for the editor: 20% of every order, with a 5.5% buyer fee plus $3.50 on orders under $200 on top. On a $500 edit you keep $400 and the client pays $527.50; on a $150 short you keep $120 and the client pays $161.75.
Is video editing a good side hustle?
Video editing is one of the few side hustles where the employed wage is public and the demand is visible: employed editors earn a median of $36.26 an hour and 35% of them are self-employed. It only pays as a side income if you price per finished minute from a real hourly floor rather than per short at whatever the cheapest listing charges, because a 60-second cut still takes one to four hours.
How do I get video editing clients?
Most paying editing clients come from creators you already follow and reply to, from podcast and YouTube hosts who publish weekly and need a reliable turnaround, from referrals by other editors at capacity, from marketplaces while you build reviews, and from a page that ranks for the kind of editing you sell. The last channel compounds instead of resetting whenever a platform changes its rules.
Should I charge per minute, per hour or per project for video editing?
Charge per project, priced from your hourly floor and the finished length. Clients buying an edit want a total, and fixed packages stop them from auditing your hours or being surprised by a per-minute meter. Hourly billing still fits open-ended retainers and on-site post-production, where the scope genuinely cannot be written down in advance.
Before you price it
Read these first
Video editing rates and price list builder
The $100 an hour it takes to earn the US median as a freelance editor, and a builder that prices shorts and videos per finished minute from your rate.
Best platforms to sell video editing services
Fiverr, Upwork, Contra, Guru and a gig page run on a $150 short and a $1,000 project, fees read at source.
How to package Basic, Standard and Premium tiers
What goes in each editing package so the middle tier sells and the top tier protects your hours.
Freelance fee calculator
Enter your package price and see what each marketplace takes from you and adds to your client.
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