Freelance rate calculator
Most freelancers price by feel and end up below what they need. This works backwards from the life you want to fund — after expenses, after tax, and using billable hours that are actually achievable.
Your floor
$110 /hour
$881 day rate
This is the floor, not the target. Below it you are funding the client out of your own savings. Price projects on the value of the outcome, and use this number to check you never go under.
The maths
- Gross revenue you need
- $111,429
- Billable hours a year
- 1,012 hrs
- Your hourly floor
- $110/hr
- Day rate (8 hours)
- $881/day
- Weekly revenue target
- $2,422/wk
- Typical 40-hour project
- $4,404
($70,000 take-home + $8,000 expenses) ÷ 0.7
22 billable hours × 46 working weeks
$111,429 ÷ 1,012 hours
Hourly floor × 8
Hourly floor × 22 billable hours
Hourly floor × 40 — quote at or above this, never below
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