Freelance Rate Calculator
Calculate your freelance hourly, day, and weekly rate from income goals, expenses, taxes, vacation, and billable hours. Free, private, no sign-up.
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What is Freelance Rate Calculator?
The Freelance Rate Calculator is a free online tool that helps self-employed professionals work out what to charge. You enter the income you want to take home, your business expenses, tax rate, and how you spend your working year - vacation, holidays, sick days, billable hours, and admin overhead. The calculator reverse-engineers a realistic hourly rate and shows matching day, weekly, monthly, and annual figures so you can quote projects with confidence.
Key Benefits
- Stops you from underpricing by building rates from real income goals, not guesses
- Accounts for taxes, expenses, and a configurable profit margin
- Removes vacation, holidays, and sick days so your rate covers your whole year
- Deducts non-billable time so only the hours you can actually bill count
- Gives day, weekly, monthly, and annual rates ready to paste into proposals
Common Use Cases
- •New freelancers setting their first hourly or day rate
- •Designers, developers, and consultants quoting fixed-price projects
- •Agencies converting contractor day rates into monthly retainers
- •Side-hustlers deciding whether going full-time freelance is viable
- •Established freelancers re-pricing their rates after a cost-of-living change
How to Use the Freelance Rate Calculator
- Enter your income goal: Type the net (after-tax) income you want to take home each year, plus your yearly business expenses and tax rate.
- Set your time off: Enter vacation weeks, public holidays, and sick days. The calculator removes them from your working year automatically.
- Add work hours and overhead: Set hours per day, days per week, and the percentage of time lost to non-billable admin tasks like email and sales.
- Read your rates: The tool shows your recommended hourly rate up top, plus day, weekly, monthly, and annual figures. Adjust inputs and copy the summary for your proposals.
Key Features
- Reverse-engineers your rate from the income you actually want to take home.
- Accounts for taxes, business expenses, and a configurable profit margin.
- Deducts vacation, public holidays, and sick days from your billable year.
- Subtracts non-billable overhead (admin, sales, email) so only real billable hours count.
- Outputs hourly, day, weekly, monthly, and annual figures in one glance.
- 100% client-side - no sign-up, no income details ever leave your browser.