Freelance Hourly Rate Calculator: What Should You Charge?
Work out the hourly and daily rate you need to charge from your desired monthly income, business expenses, tax rate, billable hours, paid time off and profit margin. Most freelancers undercharge because they divide a salary by full-time hours and forget unpaid time.
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💡 What this tool does: Convert Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Solana amounts to one of 30 fiat currencies using CoinGecko reference prices. The page requests crypto-price data through FinCalcHub’s endpoint; cached or fallback values may appear when live data is unavailable. The separate site-wide currency selector uses preset conversion factors, not live foreign-exchange rates. A displayed crypto value is an estimate, not an exchange execution quote.
📊 Daily Media Buyer RoAS Planner
Enter campaign revenue, ad spend, gross margin, and campaign length to estimate ROAS, a margin-based break-even reference, and daily revenue and spend.
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💡 What this tool does: Use revenue, ad spend, gross margin, and campaign days to calculate ROAS, break-even ROAS (1 ÷ the entered gross margin), daily averages, and revenue minus ad spend. Revenue minus ad spend is not full net profit. The break-even reference excludes costs not reflected in the entered margin, so treat it as an estimate—not a scale recommendation.
📝 Client Invoice Hours & Bench Tracker
Estimate a gross billable amount and take-home amount from hourly rate, hours, a platform-fee percentage, and an entered withholding rate.
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💡 What this tool does: Enter hourly rate, hours, platform-fee percentage, and withholding percentage to estimate gross invoice value, deductions, and the remaining amount. The withholding is only the rate you enter; this tool does not prepare an invoice or determine your actual tax liability.
💥 A/B Split-Test Significance Engine
Enter visitors and conversions for a control and a variant to compare conversion rates, relative uplift, a two-proportion Z-test confidence estimate, and a sample-size heuristic.
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💡 What this tool does: This two-proportion Z-test compares the entered conversion counts and rates. Its confidence score and sample-size flag are estimates under simplified assumptions; they do not account for experiment design, repeated checking, or audience differences. A conventional confidence threshold is not proof that a variant will perform better in the future.
Compound Interest Calculator
Estimate future value from an initial amount, annual rate, compounding frequency, time, and an optional monthly contribution. The projection assumes a constant rate.
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💡 What this tool does: Enter principal, annual rate, compounding frequency, time, and an optional monthly contribution to estimate future value and separate contributions from modeled growth. The calculation assumes the rate remains constant and contributions continue as entered; actual returns can differ.
SIP Investment Planner
Estimate the future value of regular monthly contributions using an assumed annual return and an investment period; the result is a projection, not a promise.
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💡 What this tool does: Enter monthly contribution, expected annual return, and term to estimate maturity value, total contributions, and modeled growth. The formula assumes a constant return and contributions at the beginning of each month; market returns vary, so treat the output as an illustration.
Income Tax Calculator
Estimate tax from monthly income and filer category using the calculator’s built-in progressive slabs. The schedule is fixed; verify that its rates and currency assumptions match your situation and the current tax year.
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💡 What this tool does: The calculator annualizes monthly income and estimates annual tax, effective rate, average monthly deduction, and take-home amount for the selected category. It uses hard-coded bands and rates rather than a jurisdiction- or tax-year-aware table; changing the site-wide currency display does not convert the thresholds. Check current official rules before relying on the estimate.
Savings Goal Calculator
Estimate a monthly contribution toward a savings target using the time horizon, current savings, and an assumed annual return.
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💡 What this tool does: Enter a target, time horizon, current savings, and expected return to estimate the monthly deposit, total modeled contributions, and modeled interest. The result assumes a steady return and is a planning illustration, not a guaranteed outcome.
Retirement Planning Calculator
Estimate a retirement corpus and monthly saving amount from current age, retirement age, expenses, years in retirement, inflation, and an assumed return.
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💡 What this tool does: Projects monthly expenses at retirement using the entered inflation rate, estimates a corpus for the chosen retirement period and return assumption, and estimates a monthly saving amount before retirement. It uses simplified constant-rate assumptions; actual inflation, investment returns, and spending may differ.
Profit Margin Calculator
Compare cost price with selling price to calculate the difference, profit margin, and markup. Other operating costs are not included unless reflected in the entered cost.
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💡 What this tool does: The calculator uses only the entered cost and selling prices to calculate the difference, margin, and markup. It does not model overhead, taxes, shipping, returns, or break-even volume unless those costs are included in the entered cost. A 50% markup on cost equals a 33.3% margin on price.
💼 Freelancer Hourly Rate Calculator
Estimate an hourly and daily rate from an income goal, expenses, billable hours, a tax-rate assumption, vacation days, and a target margin.
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💡 What this tool does: Enter desired monthly income, business expenses, billable hours, tax rate, paid vacation days, and a margin target to estimate an hourly rate, daily rate, and revenue target. The result uses the calculator’s built-in workday assumptions and does not account for every possible cost or tax rule.
🚀 SaaS CAC & LTV ROI Engine
Estimate CAC, simplified LTV, LTV:CAC, ROI, payback, and margin metrics from acquisition spend, new customers, monthly revenue, operating cost, and customer lifespan.
This field is not used by the current calculation; LTV uses the entered customer lifespan.
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💡 What this tool does: Enter marketing spend, new customers, monthly revenue per customer, average lifespan, and monthly operating cost per customer to estimate CAC, LTV, LTV:CAC, ROI, payback, gross margin, and related metrics. LTV is calculated as monthly net revenue multiplied by the entered lifespan; the churn field is not used. Benchmarks are context-dependent, and this simplified result is not a forecast.
🛒 E-Commerce Net Profit & Markup Suite
Estimate per-unit profitability after entered product cost, shipping, platform and payment fee percentages, and ad spend. Costs not included in those inputs are not included in the result.
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💡 What this tool does: Enter selling price, product cost, shipping, platform-fee percentage, payment-fee percentage, and ad spend per unit. The calculator returns modeled per-unit profit, margin, markup, costs, and a positive/negative profitability status; it does not calculate break-even unit volume. Unentered costs—such as returns, fixed transaction charges, tax, or overhead—are excluded.
Calculator processing: Most calculator formulas run in your browser, and outputs are estimates based on the values you enter. Results may omit real-world costs, changing rates, or tax rules; review each tool’s assumptions before relying on them. PDF and CSV exports are generated in-browser; XLSX export uses the locally loaded SheetJS file.
How to use the Freelance Hourly Rate calculator
Enter the monthly income you want to take home.
Enter your monthly business expenses and an estimated tax rate.
Enter realistic billable hours per month and your vacation days per year.
Add a profit margin target, then read your hourly rate, daily rate and revenue target.
Formula
Working days = 260 − vacation days; working months = working days ÷ 21.75
Target revenue with margin ≈ 290,526/month, or 3,486,316/year
Hourly rate ≈ 2,579.16; daily rate ≈ 20,633
These figures use the default inputs and the site’s currency setting; change the numbers to match your own situation.
Frequently asked questions
How do I calculate my freelance hourly rate?
Add your desired income and business expenses, gross it up for tax, add a profit margin, then divide by the hours you can realistically bill in a year. This calculator does each step for you.
Why not just divide my salary by 2,080 hours?
Because freelancers do not bill every working hour. Admin, sales, learning and gaps between clients are unpaid, and you also cover your own expenses, tax and time off.
What are billable hours?
Only the hours a client pays for. Many freelancers bill well under 40 hours in a week, so use an honest estimate rather than a full-time week.
What tax rate should I enter?
Use your effective rate on business income, including any self-employment contributions, rather than your top bracket. It is a flat estimate, not a tax calculation.
Should I charge hourly or per project?
Use the hourly figure as your floor. For project pricing, estimate the hours honestly, multiply by this rate and add a buffer for revisions.
Does this calculator support my currency?
Use the currency selector in the page header. Note that the site-wide selector uses preset conversion factors, so enter amounts in your own currency for the most reliable result.
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