Is there a square footage rate to charge for interior painting? If not, how is a rate determined? Thanks.

One of the things that I do for a living is that I am a house painter. It depends on the average going rates in the locality where you will be working. Around where I live and work, the going rate per square foot is about .70 cents for the application of two coats on a wall with a roller and doing the edges with a brush. And, that price is for an absolutely flat surface. For the trim, I use a brush. The rate for that is about $1.25 per linear foot for two coats. Neither of these prices include the cost of materials used, surface preparation, priming if needed or the paint used. For anything other than the painting, I would charge an hourly rate that I would like to make and figure that into my bid. As to the rates where you are, I don't know. If you let us know where you will be working, there might be some prices for around there that are listed on the Internet.

You are cheap, our rate here is $3.00 a ft, that's ceiling, walls , trim, and materials

you are cheap, our rate here is $3.00 a ft, that's ceiling, walls , trim, and materials

I don't know that I would go calling what is normally charged around here "cheap." Certainly different, though. Sure, the prices around where I live are not the same as they will be on the East or West coast or in most major cities. The cost of living is much lower where I live as compared to where you live. Additionally, I did already specify in my first answer above, that
Originally posted by Clough Neither of these prices include the cost of materials used, surface preparation, priming if needed or the paint used.

It would be helpful to know in what location rwindsp intends to be working.

Relax my friend, I was joking. And if you add all that you excluded your probably charging about the same or more