Freelance & Contractor Calculators

Set rates that pay for your time, your costs and all the hours you cannot bill.

• Freelance Hourly Rate CalculatorWork backward from your income goal to the rate you need to charge.
• Freelance Project Pricing CalculatorBuild a fixed-price quote with expenses, contingency and a deposit.
• Salary to Contractor Rate CalculatorConvert a salary into the contract rate that matches it.
• Day Rate CalculatorConvert an hourly rate into day, week, month and annual figures.
• Retainer CalculatorPrice a monthly retainer and see its value over the contract term.
• Billable Utilization CalculatorMeasure how much of your working time turns into revenue.
• Effective Hourly Rate CalculatorSee what a project really paid after unpaid time and costs.

Finding your number

Start with the hourly rate calculator. It works backward from the income you want, through expenses and a tax set-aside you choose, to the rate you need. From there, the day rate calculator and retainer calculator turn that hourly number into other ways of selling your time.

If you are choosing between a job and a contract, the salary to contractor rate calculator shows the rate that would match a salary, once you count the benefits you would need to replace.

Checking what you really earn

Quoted rates and earned rates are rarely the same. After a project, use the effective hourly rate calculator to include the unpaid time. Track your billable utilization over the months as well, since a modest change there can matter as much as a rate rise.