How much should I charge for coaching?

Coaching rates cluster by experience and niche: newer coaches commonly charge $75 to $150 per session, established coaches $200 to $500, and executive or specialized business coaching runs higher still. Life coaching averages sit lower than corporate work; your market decides more than any chart.

Packages beat single sessions for everyone. A three-month engagement, six or twelve sessions billed monthly, prices the outcome rather than the hour, stabilizes your income, and commits the client long enough to see results.

Whatever the number, it belongs in writing with the terms around it: what a package includes, when payment lands, what a late cancellation costs, and when unused sessions expire. Raising rates later is easy; collecting unwritten fees is not.

A combined coaching proposal and contract puts the price and the terms in one signable document.