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Freelance Rate-Setting Guide for Freelancers

A sourced guide to freelance rate-setting for freelancers.

The publication-ready guide and its source references are being prepared.

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Rate Calculator

Find your hourly rate floor

Use figures for the same 12-month period. Your hourly floor is your take-home target, expenses, and estimated tax reserve divided by annual billable hours.

Annual take-home target · USD (required)

Annual business expenses · USD (required)

Annual estimated tax reserve · USD (required)

Annual billable hours · hours (required)

Estimated project hours (optional) · hours

Hourly rate floor
Estimated project total

Your figures stay in this page and clear when you leave or reload; they are not saved. Enter your own tax reserve. This estimate does not calculate taxes owed and excludes fees and non-billable time.

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