How Much Should I Pay a PowerPoint Designer?

PowerPoint presentations require a design work if you want to make effective presentations with original art. However, not all people is good using Photoshop or don’t have time to focus in the design. In that case, delegating PowerPoint design is a good strategy and you can find lot of professional designers ready to make your PowerPoint presentations while you focus on the speech, the content and practice. Here we will show you different ideas to design your PowerPoint presentations in a cost effective way.

PowerPoint presentations and different payment models

In New York for example, the hourly rate for a PowerPoint presentation specialist can be around $50/hr. or $ 80/hr. – Some good designers can make you very professional presentations in a few hours, but depending on the presentation complexity some presentations can be really expensive if there are many chapters and content to present.

Other agencies and design studios may quote a PowerPoint presentation based on quantity of slides and the copy required. In this case you can find that there is a fixed cost and a variable cost based on slides and other factors. For example, for a basic presentation someone might charge you $ 150 + $20 per slide. In this model there is a fixed and variable cost.

What affects how much should I pay a PPT designer?

• Depending on the professional level and location of the professional you can find different hourly rates as well as fixed prices for your PowerPoint work.
• If you need an original PowerPoint template then that requires a professional designer to think on the art and design it in Photoshop.
• The approval process also impact in the time (and budget) needed when you delegate a PowerPoint design to a professional, so if you want to keep costs reduced try to be clear in advance about specifications and reduce the back and forth steps in the approval process.
• If you already have the content prepared for the designer, then that will be much appreciated by him and will help to keep costs at the minimum. On the other hand, if you don’t have the content, take in mind that the designer should investigate about what to put and write, and that would increase the total cost.
• The deadline is tight? Then the designer may have to leave other personal and professional things and work for you to accomplish the deadline. This may increase the costs. If you want to save here, just try to make it flexible and specify reasonable deadlines.
• Animations can be hard to achieve and takes time. 3D animations also sums a complexity to the final presentation, although you can access nice 3D PowerPoint effects and animations from 3rd. party websites.
• The same applies if you need to find images by your own way or let the designer to decorate your slides with related pictures. Some images from the Internet are purchased especially for a given presentation, so getting images from image bank can be expensive, especially if you need lot of pictures and high quality images in the slides. There are several resources like Gettyimages, Shutterstock and Dreamstime where you can purchase royalty free photos for presentations.
• The rounds of revisions also increase the total work and time spent in the presentation so this will increase the total amount that you will pay for the presentation design.

If you want to reduce costs you can hire someone using oDesk or Elance. Both services allow you to find professionals around the world ready to work in your presentations.

But if you really want to save in your presentations, then consider using free PowerPoint templates. Some free PowerPoint templates from our website are ready made presentation backgrounds that you can download and use for your own presentations. This means that you will not need to pay for a designer. Total cost: $0 (free)