Calculate your freelance hourly rate, project price, and monthly retainer fee based on income goals, expenses, billable hours, platform fees, and profit targets.
Use the hourly calculator first when you are not sure what baseline rate your freelance business needs. Then use the project and retainer calculators to turn that rate into client-facing quotes.
Work backward from target income, annual expenses, weeks off, billable percentage, platform fees, tax reserve, and risk buffer.
Convert an hourly rate into a project quote that includes planning, meetings, revisions, admin, fixed costs, rush fees, and platform fees.
Plan a monthly retainer based on delivery hours, meetings, admin time, reserved availability, priority support, tools, and fees.
These guides explain the pricing decisions behind the calculators. They are written for freelancers who want clear, practical pricing logic without turning the process into a complex finance model.
Yes. You can use the tools in your browser without creating an account or sending calculation data to a server.
Start with the freelance hourly rate calculator. It helps define the baseline rate that can later support project quotes and retainers.
No. You can enter your own tax reserve percentage for planning only. The site does not calculate tax rules for any country, state, or city.
You can use the result as a planning reference, but final pricing should also consider your market, skills, client value, contract terms, scope, and local rules.