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Given the difficulties you are are liable to face, the prices you are thinking of are low. Wikipedia actually has a policy expressly forbidding what you are proposing to do for your clients. Their "Conflicts of interests" policy was amended in 2006 to ban paid editing in response to some paid editing work done by an internet startup known as "MyWikiBiz". At the address below, you can check out a brief history of this.
However, the mere fact Wikipedia has a policy against this does not mean it cannot be done. If you know and are friendly with "the right people" on Wikipedia, you don't have to worry about following COI rules, or for that matter any other rules. In some ways, it is a lot like dealing with a corrupt Third World government. You can read about one fairly notorious example of this here: http://www.deepcapture.com/tag/wikipedia/ If your efforts meet with success, the articles your client is interested in can be placed within a "walled garden", a secret form of protection that prevents critics or other unwanted editors from changing it.
Knowing all this, your client may very well ask "Is it really worth all this trouble?" I would suggest that the answer is "No", and that other alternatives should be explored. However, if you and your client are determined to proceed, the best advice I can offer is this: don't get caught.
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