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Freelance Rate Calculator

The rate you must charge, worked backwards from the life you need to fund and forwards through the hours you can actually sell, with the three things that quietly destroy a freelance rate priced in: unbillable time, unpaid revisions and clients who pay late.

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What you’ll get

  • Enter what you need to earn and what it costs you to trade on Inputs.
  • Capacity works out how few hours you can genuinely sell. It is always fewer than you think.
  • Rate ladder shows the rate at each billable ratio, so you can see what an optimistic assumption costs.
  • Reality check prices in unpaid revisions, late payment and the discount you will actually give.
  • 12 tabs, including a live dashboard, a diagnostics read-out and benchmarks
  • Excel workbook with every formula visible and unlocked inputs, so you can change anything
  • Worked examples built in: five filled scenarios you can switch between and edit
  • Yours to keep. Works offline, no subscription, no account needed to open it

Preview

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