When should you raise your prices?
When any one of three things is true: you’re booked a month ahead, you’re saying yes to everybody who asks, or it’s been a year since the last rise. Each means the price is lower than the work is worth. None of them means you should wait for permission.
- 1
Booked a month ahead
Demand is ahead of supply. The price is the only thing you can change that doesn’t cost you more hours.
- 2
Saying yes to everybody
Nobody’s been put off by the price, which means it’s below what some of them would pay.
- 3
A year since the last rise
Your costs went up. Your price stayed. You’ve had a pay cut and nobody told you.
When not to
When you have gaps in your week and nobody is asking. Fill the calendar first, then raise the price.
Checked 2026-10-11.