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All 79 calculators on Freelance Figures, organized into 6 categories.
Rates & Pricing
20 calculators
Rate-setting calculators for freelancers who need a defensible hourly, day, or project price — start from your target income and work backward.
Billable Hours
Work out how many hours you need to bill per year, week, and day to hit your income target — based on your hourly rate and the weeks you actually work.
Day Rate
Work out the day rate you need to charge as a freelancer or contractor — based on your annual income target, billable days per year, and business costs.
Hourly Rate
Work out the hourly rate you actually need to charge as a freelancer — based on your target income, business costs, time off, and billable percentage.
Hourly ↔ Salary
Convert an hourly rate into an annual salary, or an annual salary into an hourly rate — based on the hours per week and weeks per year you actually work.
Project Price
Turn an hours estimate into a fixed-price project quote — with a risk buffer for scope creep and room for licenses, assets, or subcontractors on top.
Retainer
Price a monthly retainer for guaranteed hours — see the standard total, the discounted commitment price, and your effective rate after the discount.
Rate Increase
Work out your new rate after a percentage increase, the extra annual revenue it generates, and how much billable-hour loss still breaks even.
Effective Rate
Find out what a fixed-fee job actually paid you per hour once direct costs and unbilled time are counted, and how far that falls from your target rate.
Scope Creep Cost
Find out exactly how much a flat-fee project cost you once it ran past its quoted hours — and what your fee actually worked out to per hour.
Rush Fee
Work out the surcharge and total price for a rushed job — pick a turnaround tier and see the exact rush fee on top of your normal price.
Per-Word Rate
Turn a word count and a per-word rate into a total price and an effective hourly rate — see instantly whether that $0.10-a-word gig actually pays.
Salary to Rate
Convert a salary into the freelance rate that replaces it — accounting for lost benefits, business expenses, self-employment tax, and billable hours.
Break-Even Rate
Find the minimum hourly rate you must charge to cover your business costs, living expenses, and taxes — plus a recommended rate with a built-in margin.
International Rate
Adjust your freelance rate for a client's country using a cost-of-living index — charge more for expensive markets, price fairly for cheaper ones.
Package Pricing
Build a Basic/Standard/Premium consulting package ladder from your income target, costs, and billable days — plus clients needed at the standard tier.
Retainer vs Hourly
Compare a capped monthly retainer against billing hourly — see your effective rate under the retainer, the break-even hours, and the monthly dollar gap.
Income Goal
Work backward from the annual income you want to the hourly rate, day rate, and monthly revenue you need to charge to actually hit it.
Grant Writer Rate
Turn hours, hourly rate, and proposal complexity into a fee-for-service grant writing quote — priced honestly, never as a percentage of the grant awarded.
Podcast Editing Rate
Price podcast editing by raw audio minute and complexity tier — get a per-episode fee, price per raw hour, and monthly retainer for recurring shows.
Value-Based Pricing
Price work on the value it creates for the client, not your hours — turn outcome value, attribution, and a 10-20% capture rate into a recommended fee.
Taxes
15 calculators
Tax calculators for US-based freelancers and independent contractors covering self-employment tax, quarterly payments, and deduction planning.
1099 Take-Home Pay
Estimate what you actually keep from 1099 income after self-employment, federal, and state tax, using your own rates — plus a monthly take-home figure.
1099 vs W-2
Compare a 1099 contract rate against a W-2 salary and benefits package by isolating the self-employment tax drag on 1099 income.
Home Office Deduction
Compare the IRS simplified ($5/sqft) and actual-expense home office deduction methods side by side, see which one wins, and estimate the tax you save.
Quarterly Taxes
Turn your expected annual net profit and effective tax rate into a quarterly estimated-tax payment schedule, adjusted for what you've already paid.
SE Tax
Estimate your 2026 US self-employment tax — Social Security and Medicare on your net profit — plus the deductible half you claim on Schedule 1.
Mileage Deduction
Compare the IRS standard mileage rate against the actual expense method for your vehicle and find the bigger 2026 US tax deduction.
QBI Deduction
Estimate your 2026 Section 199A qualified business income deduction — the lesser of 20% of QBI or 20% of taxable income, with a simplified SSTB cutoff.
Safe Harbor Tax
Find the IRS safe-harbor estimated-tax target that keeps you penalty-free — the smaller of 90% of this year's tax or 100-110% of last year's.
S-Corp Savings
Estimate how much self-employment tax an S-corp election could save you by paying a reasonable salary, net of the extra payroll and accounting cost.
Tax Set-Aside
Figure out what percent of every freelance dollar to set aside for taxes — combining self-employment tax with your income-tax rate — per invoice.
Sales Tax
Add or remove US sales tax from any price using your combined state, county, and city rate, then see the exact tax and total or pre-tax amount.
UK VAT
Add or remove UK VAT at the standard (20%), reduced (5%), or zero rate, and see the exact VAT amount, net price, and VAT-inclusive total.
Canada Sales Tax
Add or remove Canadian sales tax by province -- GST, HST, or GST+PST/QST -- and see the exact tax amount, total, and pre-tax price.
AU GST
Add or remove Australia's 10% GST from any price. See the GST-inclusive total, the GST amount, and the price excluding GST, verified against the ATO.
Underpayment Penalty
Estimate your IRS underpayment penalty for short or late estimated tax payments — a simplified annual version of the real per-quarter Form 2210 math.
Creator Earnings
20 calculators
Earnings calculators for creators monetizing an audience — turning platform metrics like views, subscribers, and engagement into an income range.
YouTube Earnings
Estimate what a YouTube channel could earn from ad revenue alone, based on monthly views and the typical RPM range for your content niche.
TikTok Money
Estimate what a TikTok account could earn from the Creator Rewards Program, based on monthly views and the share of those views that qualify for a payout.
Twitch Revenue
Estimate a Twitch streamer's monthly revenue from Tier 1 subscriptions, Bits, and ads, based on subscriber count, revenue split, and ad RPM.
IG Engagement
Calculate your Instagram engagement rate from your follower count and average likes and comments per post, then see how it stacks up against common benchmarks.
Sponsorship Rate
Get a negotiating anchor for a sponsored post based on your follower count, engagement rate, and platform — a starting point, not a market price.
Blog Ad Revenue
Estimate a blog's monthly income from display ads, affiliate commissions, and sponsored posts, based on pageviews, ad network, and traffic tier.
Affiliate Income
Estimate monthly and yearly affiliate commission from your traffic, click-through rate, conversion rate, average order value, commission rate, and refund rate.
CPM/CPC/CTR
Convert impressions, clicks, and spend into CPM, CPC, and CTR in one pass, so you can compare ad or sponsorship performance on an apples-to-apples basis.
Course Revenue
Estimate what an online course launch will actually net you after opt-in rate, conversion rate, platform fees, processing, and refunds are subtracted.
UGC Rate
Price a UGC video by combining your base rate, a usage-rights uplift for paid ad use, a raw footage fee, extra hook variations, and a rush fee into one quote.
Patreon Payout
Estimate your real monthly Patreon payout after the plan fee and payment processing, plus how many patrons you need at your average pledge to hit a goal.
Newsletter Revenue
Estimate a paid newsletter's net annual revenue from subscriber count, conversion rate, price, and platform + processing fees on Substack or beehiiv.
Podcast Revenue
Estimate a podcast's monthly ad revenue from downloads per episode, your CPM, ad slots per episode, and how many episodes you publish a month.
Etsy Profit
See what you actually keep from an Etsy sale after the listing fee, transaction fee, and payment processing — enter your price and costs for net profit.
POD Profit Calculator
Calculate real per-item profit and margin for print-on-demand products after production cost, shipping, and marketplace fees like Etsy or Shopify.
Email List Value
Estimate how much your email list is worth per send and per year, from your subscriber count, open rate, click rate, conversion rate, and average order value.
Kick Earnings
Estimate a Kick streamer's monthly revenue from the platform's 95/5 split plus donations, compared to the same count on Twitch's 50/50 split.
Course Pricing
Turn a course price and expected student count into real take-home revenue after platform fees and refunds eat into the list price.
MRR & ARR
Turn subscribers, price, and churn into monthly and annual recurring revenue — see exactly how much MRR churn eats before it hits your ARR.
Skillshare Earnings
Estimate your monthly Skillshare royalty from minutes watched, your per-minute rate, and referral bonuses to project real teacher earnings.
Personal Finance
6 calculators
Money calculators built for irregular, self-employed income — the situations where standard financial advice assumes a steady paycheck you don't have.
Debt Payoff
Find out how many months it takes to pay off a balance, and how much interest you'll pay along the way, based on your APR and monthly payment.
Emergency Fund
Find out how big your emergency fund should be, how many months of runway your current savings already cover, and how much to save each month to close the gap.
Self-Employed Mortgage
Estimate the home price a self-employed borrower can qualify for, based on a two-year income average, monthly debts, and target debt-to-income ratio.
Solo 401(k) vs SEP-IRA
Compare 2026 max contribution limits for a Solo 401(k) versus a SEP-IRA on your net self-employment income, including the age-50-and-over catch-up.
Runway
Find out how many months your savings last if your freelance income drops to zero — plus a conservative 80% runway and your true monthly burn rate.
Vacation Cost
See the real cost of taking time off as a freelancer — lost billings plus fixed costs that keep running — and how much to save monthly to cover it.
Invoicing & Cash Flow
10 calculators
Calculators for the money side of getting paid: late fees, deposits, and what to bill when a client cancels midway through a project.
Late Fee
Work out the late fee and total amount due on an overdue invoice — based on the invoice amount, your monthly interest rate, and how many days late payment is.
Deposit & Milestones
Work out how much deposit to collect upfront and split the rest into equal milestone payments, based on your project total and deposit percentage.
Kill Fee
Work out what to bill when a client cancels mid-project — combines the value of work already completed with a cancellation charge on the unfinished remainder.
Processor Fees
Compare Stripe, PayPal, and Square fees on a payment, see what you actually net, and find out what to charge to net a specific amount.
Platform Fee
See what Upwork, Fiverr, Freelancer.com, or Toptal actually keeps from a project — enter the amount and get your real net earnings and take-rate percent.
Net Terms Cost
Find out what offering net-15, net-30, or net-60 terms actually costs you in financing — based on invoice size, payment terms, and your cost of capital.
Early Payment Discount
Turn an early payment discount like 2/10 net 30 into an effective annual rate, so you can see whether offering it is actually worth the cash-flow speed.
Discount Calculator
Calculate the final price and amount saved from an original price and discount percentage, with an optional second, stacked discount.
Invoice Total
Calculate the final invoice total from a subtotal, an optional percentage discount, and sales tax or VAT — see the discount, tax, and total broken out.
Subcontractor Markup
Enter your subcontractor cost and markup percent to see the client price, your profit, and your margin — priced to cover PM time and risk.
Small Business
8 calculators
Calculators for the freelancer becoming a business — what a first hire really costs, and whether ad spend pays for itself before scaling it.
Employee Cost
Find the fully loaded annual cost of a US employee — salary plus payroll tax, benefits, overhead, and recruiting — and the multiplier over base salary.
ROAS Calculator
Find your break-even and target return on ad spend from your gross margin and profit goal, plus the maximum you can afford to pay per acquisition.
Markup vs Margin
Enter your cost and selling price to see profit, markup percent, and gross margin percent side by side — and stop confusing the two when you set prices.
Break-Even Point
Find how many units you need to sell to cover fixed costs, plus the revenue that represents — from your price and variable cost per unit.
Cost-Plus Pricing
Set a price from your unit cost and a target profit margin — not a markup — so you charge enough to actually hit that margin.
Profit Margin
Enter revenue, cost of goods sold, and operating expenses to get gross margin and net margin side by side — what you keep, not just what you bill.
Proposal Win Rate
Turn your win rate and average project value into a proposal target — see exactly how many proposals to send to hit a revenue goal.
Client Concentration Risk
Find out what share of your revenue rides on one client, get a Healthy/Caution/High-risk read, and see the dollar ceiling that keeps you diversified.