$2,500 per song for indie work sounds impressive. Until you realize you can't do enough of them each month to hit your financial goal. You can learn something from this... I'm working with a producer in Canada who came to me with a challenge. His goal is to scale to $8K / month in freelance work while still preserving 20-30% of his time for speculative projects (writing camps, sync, label work). The situation looked fine on the surface: He charges $2,500 CAD per song Canada's grant system...