Price Your Expertise,
Never Work for Less.
Free freelance rate calculators: the hourly rate your target salary requires after expenses and taxes, project pricing, day rates, and what a raise is worth.
15.3% SE Tax Burden
Factor in paying both employer and employee halves of Social Security and Medicare taxes.
Billable Hours Reality
A 40-hour week typically yields only 22–25 billable client hours; overhead and marketing eat the rest.
Paid Time Off & Healthcare
Build private health insurance premiums and unpaid vacation weeks directly into hourly quotes.
FreelanceRate Calculators
Freelance Hourly Rate Calculator
The hourly rate that turns into your target income after expenses, taxes, and honest billable hours.
Project Price Calculator
Turn estimated hours and your rate into a project price — with scope-risk and revision buffers that protect the margin.
Day Rate Calculator
A daily rate for consulting and contract days — built from your target income and honest billable days, not rate × 8.
Rate Increase Impact Calculator
What a rate increase is worth per year — and how many clients you could lose before it stops paying.
Strategic Money Guides
The expenses line freelancers always forget to price
Software, insurance, retirement, the unpaid invoice — a checklist that belongs inside your rate.
Value pricing vs hourly: when each one wins
Value pricing is not a religion — it is a fit test. Here is how to tell which side a project is on.
12 mistakes people make with freelance pricing
The recurring errors we see in freelance pricing — what causes each one, and the habit that prevents it.