Shop fee inquiry(audit)

hey, I recently start picking up some photo pricing audits and just wonder what the normal/mean fee is. Those particular audits required supporting photos as well as short descriptive information. I've done a few pricing audits without photos in the past. They normally paid me $16 per audit without photos. For those photo audits, I was paid with a fee of $17. I feel it's a bit low. Do you think so? Let me know, thank you!

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Can you be more descriptive in stating what you are taking photos of, how many photos you are taking, and how long the assignment usually takes? That might help us make a determination if the fee is reasonable or not. $17 doesn't sound too bad with just the information you provided, but any more details would be appreciated.
mystikwizard,

Thank you for your feedback! The audit requires about 15-25 pictures depending on availabilties. It usually takes about 45 minutes to one hour.
Again, that is going to depend on a number of factors. There are some shops where I basically can offload the photos from the camera to the computer, adjust the brightness and ship them off. There was one company for whom I had to spend a fair amount of time titling each photo with the job number and the specific question it pertained to when there wasn't a convenient way to get to the question numbers without printing the whole darn questionnaire. There are some companies that work well with reasonable pictures you send them, there are others who are picky to a fault. And aside from the photos, how long is the report?

Sometimes the only way you can determine if a job is paying fairly is to just do one of them and see how it works out. Obviously the first job will take the longest in terms of studying up, the newness of the report to you, etc. But you can probably judge pretty well whether you would be able to do the shop more quickly and easily in the future such that it would be profitable. $17 is no bargain if on a more familiar and routine basis it takes 3 hours to get it all done. Nor is it a bargain if photo editing sends you back to the site over and over again (or tries to) for the "perfect" photo under threat of rejection of your work.
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