Freelance Rate Calculator
Estimate a rate from your annual income goal, or explore an editable historical market scenario. All amounts are USD labels; no currency conversion.
Market selectors load the previous calculator’s illustrative coefficients. They are not surveyed or current market rates and are not recommendations. Edit every base rate and multiplier. The selected weekly hours and weeks off apply in both modes.
Use ungrouped nonnegative decimals (point or comma), at most 20 characters and value 1,000,000,000,000. Weekly hours must be greater than 0 and at most 168; weeks off below 52; tax below 100%. Blank or invalid values clear the result. Display rounds to 2 decimals; calculations use floating point.
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Scenario result · USD
- Hourly
- Daily (8 hours)
- Weekly
- Monthly average
- Annual revenue
- Revenue needed before hourly rounding
- Annual expenses
- Scenario tax
- Annual billable hours
Sensitivity range
A day is 8 billable hours. Weekly revenue uses your weekly hours; monthly average is annual revenue ÷ 12, including time off. The range uses 75%–150% of the income rate or 70%–150% of the market scenario, not a statistical interval or a minimum viable rate.
| % | Hourly | Daily (8 hours) | Monthly average | Annual revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Method and limits
Income mode: (take-home target + annual expenses) ÷ (1 − tax/100), divided by (52 − weeks off) × weekly billable hours. The hourly rate rounds upward to a whole unit. Other outputs use that rate; the needed revenue before rounding is shown separately.
Market selectors load the previous calculator’s illustrative coefficients. They are not surveyed or current market rates and are not recommendations. Edit every base rate and multiplier. The selected weekly hours and weeks off apply in both modes.
A day is 8 billable hours. Weekly revenue uses your weekly hours; monthly average is annual revenue ÷ 12, including time off. The range uses 75%–150% of the income rate or 70%–150% of the market scenario, not a statistical interval or a minimum viable rate.
Drafts are saved locally only when requested. Storage may be unavailable. Copy and download require a valid result; normal site scripts may load.
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About Freelance Rate Calculator
Estimate a rate from your annual income goal, or explore an editable historical market scenario. All amounts are USD labels; no currency conversion.
Example: target 48000, zero expenses and tax, 40 hours/week, 4 weeks off gives 1920 hours/year, 25/hour, 200/day, 1000/week and 48000/year.
Use ungrouped nonnegative decimals (point or comma), at most 20 characters and value 1,000,000,000,000. Weekly hours must be greater than 0 and at most 168; weeks off below 52; tax below 100%. Blank or invalid values clear the result. Display rounds to 2 decimals; calculations use floating point.
Use Cases
How to use
Income mode: (take-home target + annual expenses) ÷ (1 − tax/100), divided by (52 − weeks off) × weekly billable hours. The hourly rate rounds upward to a whole unit. Other outputs use that rate; the needed revenue before rounding is shown separately.
Use ungrouped nonnegative decimals (point or comma), at most 20 characters and value 1,000,000,000,000. Weekly hours must be greater than 0 and at most 168; weeks off below 52; tax below 100%. Blank or invalid values clear the result. Display rounds to 2 decimals; calculations use floating point.
Pro Tips
- Market selectors load the previous calculator’s illustrative coefficients. They are not surveyed or current market rates and are not recommendations. Edit every base rate and multiplier. The selected weekly hours and weeks off apply in both modes.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. A flat fraction is applied to all revenue to reproduce the scenario model. Deductibility, tax bands, social charges and local law are excluded. Enter assumptions appropriate to your own scenario.
It only multiplies the computed rate by fixed sensitivity factors. Actual demand, experience and business costs are not measured.