Calculate your ideal hourly rate in 60 seconds.
Most freelancers undercharge because they:
- Don't account for business expenses
- Overestimate billable hours (hint: it's not 40/week)
- Forget about time off
This calculator fixes that.
- ✅ Calculate minimum hourly rate based on income goals
- ✅ Account for business expenses
- ✅ Realistic billable hours estimation
- ✅ Factor in vacation and sick days
- ✅ Get recommended rate with 20% buffer
- ✅ Works on mobile
- ✅ No signup required
- ✅ No tracking
- Enter your annual income goal
- Add your business expenses
- Set your billable hours per week (be realistic!)
- Enter weeks off per year
- Get your minimum and recommended rates
- Pure HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- No frameworks
- No dependencies
- Works offline
MIT - Do whatever you want with it.
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