Rates & Pricing

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Price a monthly retainer for guaranteed hours — see the standard total, the discounted commitment price, and your effective rate after the discount.

Work out your new rate after a percentage increase, the extra annual revenue it generates, and how much billable-hour loss still breaks even.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Convert a salary into the freelance rate that replaces it — accounting for lost benefits, business expenses, self-employment tax, and billable hours.

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.

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.

Build a Basic/Standard/Premium consulting package ladder from your income target, costs, and billable days — plus clients needed at the standard tier.

Compare a capped monthly retainer against billing hourly — see your effective rate under the retainer, the break-even hours, and the monthly dollar gap.

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.

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.

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.

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.