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Hourly rate calculator
Free to use.

Work out an hourly and a day rate from your target income, costs and billable hours.

Income and costs

What you want to keep after tax and business costs.

Software, hardware, insurance, accounting and workspace.

Your effective rate on profit.

Used for every amount on this page.

Your working year

All of it: client work, sales and admin.

Sets the length of a day for the day rate.

Holidays, public holidays and sick days.

The part of your hours spent on client work.

Your estimate of client work you redo without invoicing it.

How to use the
Hourly rate calculator

Each step below matches what you see in the tool above.

  1. Enter what you want to earn

    Set your take home income, yearly business costs, tax rate and currency.

  2. Describe your working year

    Add your weekly hours, weeks off, the share of time you can bill and how much client work you redo without invoicing.

  3. Use or share the rate

    Read your hourly and day rate as you type, then copy the link. The numbers live in the link, so it opens with the same result.

What people ask
before they use it

Short answers on how it works and what happens to your data.

Your income is grossed up for tax, business costs are added on top, and the total is divided by the hours you invoice: working weeks times weekly hours times your billable share, minus unbilled revisions.

Revision rounds start with feedback.
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