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Freelance Rate Calculator

Enter your target annual income and billable time to work out hourly / daily / project rates, and generate a quote with scope boundaries.

Step 1 · Back into your floor rate from target income

The method comes from the main site's "How to Price Personal Services": your hourly and daily rates are your cost floor — use them as a self-check, and don't quote hourly rates to clients directly. Price by project and outcome instead. Every calculation runs locally in your browser and nothing is uploaded.

Equipment, software, insurance, workspace, and so on — freelancing means no one covers these for you.

The rest of your week goes to finding clients, learning, and admin — don't assume 5 days.

Subtract holidays, sick days, and gaps between projects.

The time you can truly focus on delivery each day — usually less than 8 hours.

—Target hourly rate (cost floor)
—Target daily rate
—Billable days per year

Reference project prices (includes a 15% risk buffer)

—Small project · ~3 days
—Mid project · ~10 days
—Large project · ~20 days

Project price = daily rate × days × 1.15. The extra 15% is a risk buffer: when you price by outcome, the price absorbs communication back-and-forth, rework, and small in-scope changes up front, instead of asking the client for more money afterward.

Step 2 · Generate a quote

Scope is the guardrail for your price: spell out what's included, what's excluded, and how many rounds of revisions, and your quote will hold up. The framework comes from the main site's "Productize Your Personal Service, Starting With Boundaries." Generation also happens locally and nothing is uploaded.

Spelling out what's excluded actually builds trust — it shows you know your own boundaries.

By default this links to the small-project reference price from Step 1; once you edit it manually the link breaks, and clearing the field restores it.

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