Freelance Rate Calculator
What your hour actually needs to earn - once taxes, expenses, time off, and the hours you cannot bill are honest numbers.
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Billable hours are the ones clients pay for - not admin, email, or finding work. You have 1,200 billable hours across 48 working weeks.
Your floor rates
Hourly rate
$117.33
Day rate (8h)
$939
Week rate
$2,933
You need to bill $140,800 a year: $128,000 covers salary, expenses and taxes, plus your profit buffer. Anything below these rates eats the take-home you started with.
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