How Much to Charge for a Mock Interview

Brillay recommends charging $30–$60 for a 20–30-minute practice round, $75–$150 for a 45–60-minute mock interview with structured feedback, and $150–$300+ for an in-depth session. Choose within those ranges based on total prep, delivery, feedback time, specialization, and demand—not session length alone. Custom Work lets you offer clearly scoped commissions and services: you set the price, the scope and the delivery time, and followers submit a brief and pay before you start.

Brillay proprietary pricing guidance.

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How much is a mock interview worth?

A creator-run mock-interview review is worth $30–$300+ when priced by total time from prep through feedback rather than by session length alone. Publicly posted live mock-interview prices land inside and above that band: Georgetown University's alumni career service charges $125 for a 30-minute mock interview and $195 for a 60-minute one (Georgetown Alumni Career Services).

Five organizations publish their own mock-interview prices, and together they define the observable market band a creator can price against:

Georgetown University's Alumni Career Services lists a 30-minute mock interview at $125, a 60-minute mock interview with interview-prep coaching at $195, and an additional $30 rush fee for a session needed within three business days.

The Muse prices the same 75-minute session — a needs assessment, a call that can be run as a mock interview, and a follow-up note — at $155 with a Mentor, $329 with a Coach, and $659 with a Master Coach, a 4.3x spread driven by coach seniority rather than by session length.

The technical-interview platform interviewing.io states in its official FAQ that its interviews start at $179, with the price varying by subject matter and by whether the candidate requests an interviewer from a specific company.

The mock-interview marketplace Prepfully states in its own candidate FAQ that a session on its platform costs $50–$300, with an average price of $150.

Colorado State University's Career Center charges alumni $25 per coaching session (mock interviews included) within five years of graduation, $40 for alumni six or more years out, and $60 per session for alumni ten or more years out who are not Alumni Association members, after an initial free consultation (CSU Career Center for alumni) — a subsidized institutional rate rather than an open-market price.

Read across those five published sources, single-session mock interviews are advertised from $25 at the subsidized university end to $659 at the most senior coach tier, and every full-length (60–75 minute) price found — Georgetown's $195, The Muse's $155/$329/$659, and interviewing.io's $179 starting price — is $155 or higher. No government agency, trade association, or academic body publishes a measured price survey for creator-run mock interviews specifically, so this guide relies on those posted prices plus the time-cost formula below rather than on an industry average.

Brillay's starting ranges are derived by applying the time-cost formula in the worksheet below — (total prep-through-feedback minutes ÷ 60) × target hourly rate — at target hourly rates of $60–$120, then cross-checking the result against the five published prices above (Brillay editorial methodology).

Three factors determine where your offer belongs:

• Review length. A short behavioral answer review is a smaller offer than a full set of technical or role-specific responses.
• Feedback depth. Quick written guidance takes less time than a detailed scorecard, annotated file, recorded breakdown, or tailored action plan.
• Specialized experience. Firsthand interviewing or hiring experience in the follower’s role, company type, or industry can support a higher price than a generic practice session — The Muse charges $155 to $659 for the identical 75-minute session depending only on coach tier.

What should you charge for each mock interview session type?

Charge $30–$60 for a short recorded-answer review with concise feedback, $75–$150 for a fuller mock-interview review with structured feedback, and $150–$300+ for an in-depth review with a written scorecard. These are Brillay editorial starting ranges built from the time-cost formula at a $60–$120 target hourly rate; the full-review tier also brackets Georgetown's published $195 60-minute mock interview.

Move up or down within a range based on:

• Required preparation. Reading a resume, job description, portfolio, or submitted answer file and writing tailored questions are billable parts of the work, even though they happen before the final feedback.
• Delivery format. A live interview reserves calendar time; use Custom Work for a defined deliverable such as reviewing recorded answers and returning one feedback package on your own time — no live call, no scheduling.
• Current demand. Consistent orders are a reason to price near the top of a range rather than automatically adding more availability.
• Feedback scope. Written notes, scorecards, recorded feedback files, and tailored action plans should increase the price because they increase both time and value; one clearly defined delivery also helps prevent scope creep.

How can you calculate your minimum profitable price?

Your minimum profitable price equals (total minutes from prep through feedback ÷ 60) × your target hourly rate, rounded up to a clean customer-facing number. Calculate your floor from the complete time required, not only the minutes spent reviewing the follower’s submitted answers:

1. Estimate preparation time. Include reading submitted materials, researching the role, and preparing questions or evaluation criteria.
2. Add review or delivery time. For Brillay, count the time spent reviewing recorded answers and building the deliverable rather than a scheduled call slot.
3. Add feedback and administration. Count writing the final notes, scorecard, files, or links, plus the time spent on order messages; each Custom Work order is delivered as one package.
4. Choose your target hourly rate. Base it on what your time and relevant experience are worth to you; pricing without undervaluing your time explains this approach.
5. Calculate and round up. Use this formula: (total minutes ÷ 60) × target hourly rate = minimum price.

For example, a mock-interview review requiring 75 minutes from preparation through written feedback has a time cost of about $113 at a $90 hourly target. A clear customer-facing price would be $115 or $125, rather than $112.50.

What fees come out of a mock-interview payment?

Brillay charges an 8% platform fee when a follower pays for work and 5% on tips and goals, and starting a page has no monthly fee (Brillay pricing). There is no follower minimum or application gate to sell a defined Custom Work deliverable, and eligible creators can receive payouts in 41 countries.

Stripe handles payment processing and payouts through Brillay (how Brillay works). Stripe’s standard rate for a successful US domestic online-card transaction is approximately 2.9% + $0.30 (Stripe pricing); international cards, currency conversion, and manually entered cards may cost more.

For Custom Work, followers pay upfront before you start, you deliver on your own time, and you can decline a request. Scope stays documented when you deliver through the order, so define the work clearly and avoid promising outcomes.

Fee-order note: A mock interview is paid work, so Brillay’s platform fee here is 8% when a follower pays for work, not the 5% that applies to tips and goals. The table therefore shows the 8% Brillay fee on paid work and estimated Stripe fee for each original charge.

At a $90 selling price on Brillay, the estimated Stripe processing fee is $2.91, Brillay’s 8% paid-work fee is $7.20, and the creator keeps approximately $79.89 before taxes or other expenses.

At a $40 mock-interview price on Brillay, the 8% Brillay fee on this Custom Work order is $3.20 and the estimated Stripe processing fee is $1.46, leaving the creator approximately $35.34. At a $175 price — just below Georgetown's published $195 60-minute mock interview — the Brillay fee is $14.00, the estimated Stripe fee is $5.38, and the creator keeps approximately $155.62.

These figures are planning estimates rather than exact invoices. The actual payment details appear in the creator’s dashboard, and Stripe’s processing cost can vary by payment method and card type.

When should you raise your mock-interview price?

Raise your price as soon as demand or workload outgrows the current amount. Brillay editorial guidance is to treat a raise as due once your review capacity is full more than a week ahead, you have turned away three or more requests in a month, or you have sold your last 5–10 orders at full price; these three thresholds are editorial rules of thumb, not figures from a measured study.

• Your capacity is full more than a week out, or you are turning away requests (Brillay editorial guidance). A price increase can moderate demand while improving earnings per available review.
• Your last 5–10 orders all sold at the current price with no discounting (Brillay editorial guidance). Proven demand at full price gives you stronger evidence for testing a higher amount — and a published comparator to aim at, such as interviewing.io's $179 starting price.
• Reviews require more work than originally scoped. Increase the price if resume review, answer analysis, question preparation, feedback, or administration repeatedly exceeds your estimate.
• Your expertise has become more specialized. Additional hiring, interviewing, or role-specific experience can justify repositioning the service.
• You add a higher-value deliverable. Written scorecards, recorded feedback files, and tailored action plans should not be absorbed without revisiting the price.

You can change the price for future orders without changing what an existing client already purchased.

Frequently asked questions

Should a live mock interview cost more than a recorded-answer review?

Usually, yes in the broader coaching market. A live session reserves a fixed calendar slot and cannot be batched as easily as asynchronous work, and speed itself is priced in the market: Georgetown University's alumni service adds a $30 rush fee to any mock interview needed within three business days. On Brillay, however, Custom Work is for asynchronous deliverables, not live calls, booking, calendars, or scheduling, so price the review around the sent materials and the final feedback package.

Is $30 too low for a mock interview?

Brillay recommends $30 only as the lower end of a short 20–30-minute recorded-answer review. For a full-length live session it is below every published comparator: Colorado State University's alumni sessions start at $25 only because they are institutionally subsidized (CSU Career Center), while the lowest published open-market full-length price found is The Muse's $155 Mentor tier.

Should you sell packages of multiple sessions?

Start with one clearly scoped review and one final delivery; if a client wants another review later, they can place a new one-time custom request. Custom Work is one-time purchases with no membership, so the cleanest way to avoid scope creep is to define exactly what the client submits, what you deliver, and what is excluded.

Do you need a large following to sell mock interviews?

No. Brillay sets no follower minimum and no application to list a mock-interview review — a relevant, engaged audience and credible interview experience matter more than total follower count, and the ask feels less awkward when you frame it as a specific paid review with a clear outcome rather than as a vague favor.

How do you set a mock-interview price on Brillay?

For a mock-interview review completed on your own time, create a custom request listing with a fixed price, delivery time, and clearly included deliverables.

With Custom Work on Brillay, you can define the fixed price, scope, delivery time, required buyer materials, exclusions, and one final delivery for an asynchronous interview review; followers submit their brief and pay before you start. If you specialize in a particular field, Brillay for coaches and experts shows how the setup applies to expertise-based services.

One Brillay link can hold Custom Work alongside Paid Questions, Personalized Videos, Tips, Goals, and Brand Collaboration Inquiries, so your interview-review offer can sit next to your other follower and brand options without sending people to separate pages.

Ready to set a price and sell a defined asynchronous interview-review deliverable from the same Brillay link as your other offers? Create your free Brillay page — there is no monthly fee and no follower minimum.