The quote assumed they bring the art. They asked you to hunt it.
A 2026 ping still reads “just grab something from Getty,” “can you find a hero still,” or “clear a clip we can run in ads.” None of those is you drawing another screen. None is a vendor PDF they already named. None is briefing a photographer you are not. The original number paid for your work, on art they would send or you would make. They now want you inside a library you did not price: search, pick, and confirm the license actually covers their use — commercial vs editorial, people in the frame, territory. Bill that clock from the hub floor. Income target, billable-week count, and whatever tax slice you entered over there stay over there. This card will not copy that slice, and it is not a 50-state tax engine. $180 is 2 times 90 with a dollar sign so you can read it. Need euros or pesos on the invoice? Switch currency on the hub. If $90 is still a guess, begin on how to set a freelance rate.
Stock-license extra = hours you type to search and clear × hourly floor. Time it from the first keyword to the last license check. Two hours is 2. A long keyword slog plus model-release reading is 4. A second hunt — they hated the first batch and want another pass — is extra hours you type, not $15 a still, not a 20% markup on the library receipt, not a Getty take-rate. This card will not mint “stock is 20% of the project,” a free image hunt, a per-image mill, or an Adobe cut.
Worked USD: 2h × $90 = $180
Preset: 2 search-and-clear hours. Floor $90. Second-hunt hours 0. Stock-license extra: 2 × $90 = $180.
That $180 is your hunt. It stacks on a number that already paid for screens you would draw, or art they said they would send. It is not the Getty invoice. It is not a photographer you briefed. It is not more people running a file you already made. It is not the .fig zip. Put the dollars in writing before you open the library. Do not wait for “finding stock was in the original fee.” This page never tucked a search-and-clear clock inside that fee.
Third preset: 4 hours at the same $90. Extra: 4 × $90 = $360. You typed the 4. This page did not. A longer hunt — three keyword sets, a model-release check, a territory read — is still hours × floor, still billed because they asked you to search after a quote that assumed they would supply the art or you would draw it, still not a Getty take-rate, still not a 20% markup, and still not a per-image mill.
A second hunt is extra hours, not a per-image mill
Second preset: same 2 search-and-clear hours, same $90. They hated the first batch. You type 1 extra hour for that second hunt. Billed hours: 2 + 1 = 3. Stock-license extra: 3 × $90 = $270. Search-and-clear labor is $180. Second-hunt labor is $90.
Those second-hunt hours did not mint $15 a still and did not mint a 20% markup on anyone’s library bill. You named extra hours. The card multiplied hours × floor. If they said “find different images” and extra hours stay 0, extra hours stay 0 — this page will not cook a per-image mill so the math looks official, and it will not cook a Getty take-rate. Type the hours that second hunt actually costs, or leave that box at 0.
This is not the stock invoice, a person you don’t do, more seats on your file, or the native zip
The library’s own bill — Getty, Adobe Stock, a footage house — lives on the expense-markup card. That math is the cost you paste × (1 + a share you type). Share 0 is repay-at-cost. Typing 0.15 is a 15% illustration you chose, not a 20% agency markup this page will invent. A receipt is not your keyword clock. Clearing a license is not marking up their invoice. If they want both, put search-and-clear hours here and paste the stock invoice there. Two lines. Do not launder a $400 stock pack into “a couple of image hours,” and do not launder your 2h of hunting into a fake handling percent on that receipt.
Hours you type to find, brief, and review a person you are not — motion, copy, a photographer — live on the specialist card. Worked example there: 3h × $90 = $270. That clock casts a craftsperson. This clock hunts a library. Briefing a motion person is not clearing a still. Clearing a still is not hiring a photographer. Want both? Find / brief / review hours there, search-and-clear hours here. Their invoice, in either case, still pastes on expense-markup.
More people running a file you already made is not a stock hunt. Quoted hours × floor × a multiplier you type lives on the usage-license card. 0.5 is a half-again example they type, not 2× for nationwide ads, not a copyright statute. Usage widens who can run YOUR work. This card hunts someone else’s library and checks whether that third-party license covers their use. Do not tuck a stock search inside a paid-ads multiplier, and do not tuck extra seats inside a search-and-clear extra.
The native Figma / PSD / AE project after they already bought the PDF, MP4, or live site is a different product. Package/handoff hours × floor on the source-files card (worked 2h × $90 = $180 — same dollars, different zip). Optional 0.25 of original job hours is a quarter-job comparison they type there — not 50% of the project, not added. That zip is YOUR layered source. This extra is a third-party still you had to hunt. Want both? Zip hours there, search-and-clear hours here. Do not treat a stock hunt as “just send the .fig.”
You type the hours. This page will not invent a Getty take-rate
Stock blogs love a tidy cut: a Getty take-rate, an Adobe percent, 20% markup, $12 a still, “everyone marks up libraries.” None of those figures is a statute, a filing table, or the math this card runs. Photo vs clip vs illustration only names which library they pointed you at. Dollars here are hours you type to search and clear × floor. This page will not mint a Getty take-rate, an Adobe cut, a 20% markup, or a per-image mill.
If they ask for “the usual stock percent,” say there isn’t one on this card. Show the $180 two-hour example, type 4, or type a second-hunt hour. You pick the hours. Skip guilt. If they will not confirm the extra, the hunt stays unstarted. The quote that assumed they would supply the art, or that you would draw it, still stands. The library invoice, when it exists, still belongs on expense-markup — not inside this extra.
Paste the line before you open the library
Name the search-and-clear hours. Name the floor. Name $180 (or whatever the card shows). Name that it sits on a quote that assumed they would send the art, or that you would draw it. If second-hunt hours are on, name those too. Name that the stock invoice is a different line. Copy from this card so the dollars in the email match the dollars on screen.
- 2h × $90. Stock-license extra: 2 hours I type to search, pick, and clear stock × $90.00/hr = $180.00. The quote assumed they supply the art, or I draw it. Hunting a library is hours × floor — not a Getty take-rate, not a 20% markup, and not a per-image mill. The stock invoice is a separate line. Please confirm $180.00 before I open the library.
- Same 2h, 1h second hunt. Stock-license extra: 2 hours I type to search and clear + 1 extra hour I typed for a second hunt = 3 hours × $90.00/hr = $270.00. A second hunt is extra hours, not a per-image mill. That is not a Getty take-rate and not a 20% markup. Please confirm $270.00 before I open the library.
- 4h search and clear. Stock-license extra: 4 hours I type to search, pick, and clear stock × $90.00/hr = $360.00. The quote assumed they supply the art, or I draw it. Hunting a library is hours × floor — not a Getty take-rate, not a 20% markup, and not a per-image mill. The stock invoice is a separate line. Please confirm $360.00 before I open the library.
Leave out guilt and “everyone marks up Getty 20%.” That speech turns a keyword hunt into a fight. This page has no official take-rate, no 20% markup, and no per-image mill. No confirmed fee, no library opened. The stock invoice belongs on expense-markup. A person you don’t do belongs on specialist. More users of YOUR file belong on usage-license. The native zip belongs on source-files. If the $90 floor moved, rebuild it on the hub, then name this search-and-clear extra.
Planning math, not a stock license
Planning numbers only — not legal, tax, or collections advice, and not a stock license. No mandated Getty take-rate, no Adobe cut this page will run, no 20% markup, no per-image mill, no statute that prices a keyword hunt, and no 50-state tax engine. Keep the contract you already signed. Need an enforceable stock-clearance or reimbursable-license line? Hire counsel where you work before you open the library. Filling this card does not draft that language, does not clear a still, and does not buy the file.
You type search-and-clear hours, the hourly floor, and optional second-hunt hours (not a per-image dollar). You get billed hours, the stock-license extra, and one sentence to paste. Dollars here are labeled USD; live currency plus any tax slice you chose stay on the hub. The stock invoice never enters this product.
Rate calculator The stock invoice, not your hours Find a person you don’t do More users of YOUR file Set the hourly floor
Billable weeks changed? Rebuild the floor on the hub first, then price the hunt. This card names a quote that assumed they would send the art, or that you would draw it — hours you type to search and clear × floor, a second hunt as extra hours, not a Getty take-rate, not a 20% markup, not a per-image mill. The library bill: expense-markup. Hours to find, brief, and review a craftsperson you are not: specialist. Broader rights on a file you already made: usage-license. Native working files after a bought delivery: source-files. Floor still a guess? Start on how to set a freelance rate.
FAQ
How do I charge when a freelance quote assumed they supply the art, or I draw it, and they want me to search, pick, and clear stock?
Stock-license extra is hours you type to search and clear × your hourly floor. The original number assumed they would send the photos, or that you would draw them. Hunting a library, picking frames, and checking the license actually covers their use is a second clock. The stock invoice itself is a separate receipt on the expense-markup card. Planning figures, not a stock license.
Is a freelance stock-license extra a Getty or Adobe take-rate, a 20% markup, or billed per image?
Not on this card. There is no official Getty take-rate, no Adobe cut, no 20% markup, and no per-image mill. 2 hours × a $90 floor is $180 because you typed 2 and 90. Clear the 2 if the hunt is longer. This page will not invent a stock-library percent or a dollar-per-still.
Where does the stock invoice go if this card is only my search-and-clear hours?
On the expense-markup card. That card multiplies a pasted vendor cost by one plus a share you type. Share 0 is repay-at-cost. Typing 0.15 is a 15% illustration you chose, not a 20% agency markup. This card never multiplies the Getty, Adobe, or library receipt. Two lines if they want both: your search-and-clear hours here, the stock invoice there.
Is searching stock the same as hiring a specialist, a usage license, source files, or expense markup?
No. A specialist extra is hours you type to find, brief, and review a person you don’t do — motion, copy, photo. A usage license is more users of YOUR file — quoted hours × floor × a multiplier you type. Source-files is the native Figma / PSD / AE zip after they already bought the delivery. Expense-markup is the stock invoice they asked you to pay. This card is hours to search, pick, and clear third-party stock the quote assumed they would supply or you would draw.
Is this stock-search math a license, a take-rate table, or a 50-state tax engine?
No. Planning arithmetic only. $180 is 2 × $90 with a dollar sign. Switch currency and any tax slice on the hub. This page is not a 50-state tax engine, not a Getty or Adobe take-rate table, not legal advice, and does not grant, clear, or transfer a stock license.