pricing-your-services
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.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill pricing-your-services --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Pricing Your Services Skill Freelancers treat pricing as one number when it's actually a structure: *which model* for which work, *how it's packaged*, and *how it's said*. Hourly punishes you for being fast; fixed-price punishes you for scoping badly; the right answer differs by engagement type within the same practice. This skill designs the structure — models matched to work, tiered packages that anchor, a script for the money moment — for someone who already knows their base rate (see [freelance-rate](../freelance-rate/SKILL.md) to derive it). ## What This Skill Produces - **The model map** — hourly / day-rate / fixed-project / retainer / value-based, matched to each engagement type they actually sell - **The package structure** — three tiers with the anchor built in, and what's deliberately excluded from each - **The rate-conversation script** — saying the number, then the silence; deflections for "what's your best price" pre-answered - **The discount policy** — what earns a discount (scope cut, longer commitment, prepayment), the floor, and the no-discount discount alternatives ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **Base day/hourly rate** — derived, not guesse
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Structure Rules
- Output Format
- Model Map
- Packages
- The Money Moment
- Discount Policy
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the pricing-your-services skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill pricing-your-services --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.