Freelance Figures

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All 89 calculators on Freelance Figures, organized into 6 categories.

Rates & Pricing

23 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, then see the honest employee-equivalent number after self-employment tax and lost benefits — because a freelance dollar and a salaried dollar aren't worth the same.

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 — then check whether you're actually on pace to 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.

Sick Day Rate

Find the rate loading you need to self-insure against unplanned sick days — freelancers get no paid sick leave, so the buffer has to come from your rate.

Photo Retoucher Rate

Price a retouching batch per image by complexity tier, add a rush surcharge, and get a project fee freelance photo retouchers can actually quote.

Audiobook Narration Rate

Price audiobook narration Per Finished Hour: enter manuscript word count and your PFH rate to get project fee, finished hours, and estimated labor hours.

Taxes

16 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.

SE Health Insurance Deduction

Estimate your above-the-line Form 7206 health insurance deduction — capped at net self-employment earnings after SE tax and retirement contributions.

Creator Earnings

21 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 an estimated sponsored-post rate built from that same engagement data.

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.

Udemy Revenue

Estimate your real Udemy instructor payout from course price and monthly sales — factoring in the 97% coupon-sale share vs. the 37% marketplace share.

Personal Finance

7 calculators

Money calculators built for irregular, self-employed income — the situations where standard financial advice assumes a steady paycheck you don't have.

Invoicing & Cash Flow

13 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 when you discount a client quote, plus what that discount does to your profit and margin against your own cost floor.

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.

Timesheet Calculator

Add hours and minutes for as many timesheet rows as you need and turn a timesheet into an invoice amount at your hourly rate.

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.

Profit First

Allocate your monthly freelance income into profit, owner pay, tax, and operating expense buckets using the Profit First allocation method.

Intl. Payment Fees

Compare what Wise, PayPal, and Payoneer actually take when a foreign client pays your invoice, and see what lands in your account after fees and FX.

Small Business

9 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 — then see the contractor rate it takes to match it and which option is actually cheaper.

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.

Coworking vs Home Office

See whether a coworking membership or your home office is cheaper for the year, once the home-office tax deduction is factored into the comparison.