LinkedIn ghostwriting costs, line by line
Answer in brief
A LinkedIn ghostwriting budget has around a dozen cost lines, and most quotes only show the first one or two. The writing fee is the obvious one: freelancers charge $50–$600 a post in guides from Windmill Growth and Influent. Interviews, your review time, approvals, revisions, design, video, comments, profile work, paid distribution, reporting and your exit terms make up the rest.
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The cost lines
| Cost line | What drives it | What to ask |
|---|---|---|
| Writing fee | Posts per week, research depth, the writer's seniority. Freelancers charge $50–$600 a post in guides from Windmill Growth and Influent | What counts as a post: a text draft, a published post, a carousel? |
| Strategy and onboarding | How many people, how much positioning work you need | Is this a separate fee, and what do we have in hand at the end of it? |
| Interviews | How often, how long, how many people | Who runs them, and how much of my time does each one take? |
| Your review time | How close first drafts are, how many people review | How do drafts reach me, and how many rounds are included? |
| Legal or comms approval | Regulated industry, public company, internal policy | Can you work inside our approval process without stalling posting? |
| Revisions | How well the writer knows your voice and business | What happens when a draft misses completely? |
| Design (carousels, images) | Formats used, brand standards. $1,000–$4,000 a month when it isn't in the retainer, per Influent | Is design included, and do we keep the templates? |
| Video clips | Recording, editing, captions. $300–$1,500 per finished piece (Influent); Stop The Scroll lists a video add-on at $1,950 a month | Can you edit from footage we already have? |
| Comments and engagement | Number of profiles, human or automated replies. $300–$600 a month in Creator's guide | Who writes the comments, and is any of it automated? |
| Profile rewrite | Number of profiles. Bundled in some plans, such as BAMF's profile redesign | Is it a one-time fee, or part of the monthly price? |
| Paid distribution | Ad spend, targeting, campaign management. Stop The Scroll lists an ads add-on at $2,950 a month plus ad spend | Is ad spend inside the fee or billed on top? |
| Reporting | What gets tracked, and whether it connects to sales | How will we know which posts helped with deals? |
| Term and notice | Minimum term, notice period. BAMF, for example, runs month to month with 30 days' notice | What's the notice period, and what do we keep if we leave? |
No published guide prices strategy, interviews, revisions or reporting separately, so ask how each is charged. Most of the figures above come from agencies' own guides.
A made-up quote, marked up
The table earns its keep when a real quote lands. Here's an invented one, with the price left out because the point is what it covers:
Eight LinkedIn posts a month for one executive. Includes a monthly strategy call, writing with two rounds of edits, scheduling and a monthly report. Comment management available as an add-on. Three-month minimum, then 60 days' notice.
Read against the table, line by line:
- Writing fee: included. Ask whether "post" means a published post or a draft, and whether a carousel counts as one.
- Strategy: included, monthly. Good, but a monthly call isn't a weekly interview. Ask who gathers the ideas in between.
- Interviews: unclear. If nobody talks to the executive between strategy calls, the ideas will come from somewhere else, usually you.
- Revisions: capped at two rounds. Ask what happens when the second round still misses.
- Your review time and approvals: not mentioned. They're yours either way, so put your own hours on them.
- Comments: extra. Get the price before you sign, since it's easy to add later at whatever rate is quoted then.
- Design, video, profile rewrite, paid distribution: not offered. Either you don't need them yet or they're separate budgets.
- Reporting: included. Ask what's in it. Impressions and follower counts won't tell you which posts helped with deals.
- Term and notice: three months, then 60 days. If you decide to stop at the end of month three, you're paying until about the end of month five.
That quote covers four of the thirteen lines outright. Everything else is your time, someone else's budget or a question to ask before you sign.
Which of these lines Sell in Public covers
Of the lines in the table, Sell in Public handles these:
- Strategy and interviews. It works on content and strategy, with a weekly interview and whatever recordings and notes your team already has.
- Writing and revisions. Its writers draft and rework each post with the person posting, and you give the final yes.
- Comments. Always written by humans. It also flags prospects engaging with your team's (or competitors') content to sales and forwards inbound DMs and valuable questions.
- Reporting. Tracked links, your sales data and what buyers say, with honesty about what can't be traced.
If you also need design, video, profile rewrites or paid ads, ask on the intro call what's included and budget separately for anything that isn't. Sell in Public doesn't send DMs or book meetings, so look elsewhere if outbound messaging is what you're buying.
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Sources for this entry
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- What a LinkedIn ghostwriter really costs, including your time
- What LinkedIn ghostwriting costs (linkedinghostwritingpricing.com)
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- How costs scale with team size (linkedincontentagencypricing.com)
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LinkedIn Ghostwriter Cost. "LinkedIn ghostwriting costs, line by line." Updated 8 November 2026. https://linkedinghostwritercost.com/ledger/