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Freelance rate calculator

Work out the hourly rate your own numbers require. Nothing is sent anywhere — the calculation runs in your browser, and every number below is one you enter yourself.

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The income you want to take home in a year, in your own currency, before business expenses and tax allowance. Hours you expect to bill clients each week, not total working hours. Non-billable time — admin, marketing, learning — is not counted here. Weeks you expect to work in a year, after holidays and time off. Enter your own figure. Yearly business costs: software, hardware, insurance, accounting and similar. Enter 0 if you have none to count. The percentage you want to set aside for tax. Enter your own allowance — this page does not assume a tax rate.

Required rate

Billable hours per year—
Revenue needed per year—
Required hourly rate—
Required monthly revenue—

Enter values above to calculate. Revenue needed = (target income + expenses) ÷ (1 − tax allowance ÷ 100). Hourly rate = revenue needed ÷ billable hours per year. Monthly revenue = revenue needed ÷ 12. All figures come from your inputs only; no rate on this page is presented as a market fact.

What each input means

Target income is what you want to keep. Billable hours are only the hours clients pay for — most freelancers bill far fewer hours than they work, and using total working hours here understates the rate. Working weeks exclude holidays. Expenses are your business costs. Tax allowance is the share you set aside for tax, as a percentage you choose.

What the result means

The hourly rate is the rate that covers your income target, your expenses and your tax allowance at the billable hours you entered. If the rate looks high, the levers are billable hours, expenses and target income — changing any one changes the result. This is arithmetic on your inputs, not a market rate and not financial advice; tax treatment varies by country and situation, so check yours separately.

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