The cost of editing (or not)

Whether you are writing a blog post or a full-length book, it helps to have another set of eyes. In a tech book, a typo can mean the example you wrote doesn't run or the instruction stumps a newbie. A real-world example: "so the dtype of out is not float64" where "not" should have been "now," -- a tiny typo of one letter that completely changed the meaning. So what does it cost to have your writing edited? The Editorial Freelancers Association just updated their Rates page based on a 2020 survey of all their members, which you can see here: https://www.the-efa.org/rates. In today's world, where so many authors are choosing to self-publish, you may want to use this resource (once you decide editing is important) to figure out what you should be paying for editing.