As a highly-skilled professional, your ultimate goal is to lock in consistent income for your services. That’s why we’ve worked with legal experts to create a retainer agreement (PDF and Word) for you to use repeatedly to secure long-term clients.
As a highly-skilled professional, your ultimate goal is to lock in consistent income for your services. That’s why we’ve worked with legal experts to create a retainer agreement (PDF and Word) for you to use repeatedly to secure long-term clients.
What’s in this template?A retainer is a fee structure where a service provider charges a client for a certain amount of hours each month. Retainer fees can be charged in advance for the upcoming month, or after the work has been carried out.
Retainers are historically used as a billing method for lawyers and consultants, as you never know how much support you’ll need from these professionals in a given month.
The retainer model has recently become popular amongst creative freelancers like content writers and social media managers as they tend to develop long-term relationships with clients. Rather than relying on one-off opportunities where income is volatile, monthly retainer agreements give creatives more stable work. On the other side, clients pay retainers, knowing they have access to services when they need them.
A retainer agreement is a formal contract between a service provider and a client laying out the terms of the work to be conducted every month.
DISCLAIMER: We are not lawyers or a law firm and we do not provide legal, business or tax advice. We recommend you consult a lawyer or other appropriate professional before using any templates or agreements from this website.
As a professional service provider, you’re incredibly busy doing client work. That’s why we’ve designed a simple retainer agreement template that will scale as your business grows.
