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Pricing Your Services
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-17
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-freelance
Design a freelance/consulting pricing structure — hourly vs day-rate vs project vs retainer chosen per engagement type, anchored packages, and the rules for saying the number out loud without flinching. Use when asked how should I price my freelance services, hourly or fixed price, build my pricing packages, or a client asked my rate what do I say. Produces the pricing-model decision per engagement type, a three-tier package structure, the rate-conversation script, and the discount policy with its floor.
What to give it
▸Base day / hourly rate — derived, not guessed (route to freelance-rate if missing)
▸The engagement types they actually sell — quick consults, defined projects, ongoing work — each may price differently
▸Scoping confidence per type — fixed-price is only safe where they can scope within ±20%; be honest
▸Client landscape — enterprise vs small business vs startups changes packaging and payment terms more than the rate
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Every engagement type has a model AND the reasoning for it
✓Fixed-price only where scoping confidence is stated ±20%
✓Each tier lists exclusions, not just inclusions
✓The script ends at the number — no trailing hedge
✓Every discount names what it buys; the floor is computed, not felt
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not use one model for everything — the model is per-engagement-type
Do not fixed-price ambiguity — that's donating the scoping risk for free
Do not build a cheap bottom tier to "win volume" — it attracts the clients who cost the most per dollar
Do not justify the rate after saying it — justification signals negotiability
Do not discount without an exchange — reprice scope, terms, or timeline instead
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
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Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
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