Stop guessing your price. Enter the income you want to keep, your expenses, tax set-aside and realistic billable hours — and get the hourly, day and week rate that actually gets you there. Or check whether the rate you charge today adds up. Runs in your browser, nothing uploaded.
Most freelancers pick a number that "sounds about right" and quietly underearn for years. The honest way to set a rate is to work backwards from the take-home income you actually want, then add the things employment hides from you: your own tax, your own expenses, and the fact that only some of your working hours are billable.
This calculator does that math in two directions. In income-goal mode, you tell it the take-home you want, your yearly expenses, your tax set-aside percentage and your realistic billable hours, and it returns the hourly, day and week rate you need to charge. In rate-check mode, you enter a rate you are considering and it shows the gross revenue, expenses, tax and the take-home you would actually be left with.
The rate that hits your target take-home after tax and expenses — with the intermediate numbers shown.
Derived from your hourly rate so you can quote fixed blocks of time with confidence.
Grosses up your goal so the rate already covers the tax you should be putting away.
Encourages a true weeks-and-hours input, because admin and sales time are not billable.
Enter a rate and see the take-home it really produces before you commit to it.
Runs entirely in your browser. Your income goals never leave your computer.
Once you know your number, the rest of the workflow is offline too: track the billable hours you priced, turn them into an invoice with InvoicePro, lock the terms with a contract, and watch the money with the expense & tax tracker. All one-time purchases, no subscription. Get all five in the $39 Freelance Tools Suite · also on Payhip.
Part of a set of offline, no-subscription tools that cover the whole freelance workflow:
Two minutes to a rate you can defend. Free, no account, nothing uploaded.