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Freelance Hourly Rate Calculator

Set a freelance rate that actually hits your income goal.

How to use

  1. Enter your values in the fields above.
  2. Press Calculate to see your result instantly.
  3. Use the Share button to copy a link to your result.

About this calculator

Setting a freelance hourly rate by simply dividing a desired salary by 2,080 working hours a year ignores a crucial reality: freelancers can’t bill every hour they work, since time also goes to admin, invoicing, marketing, and unpaid gaps between projects — realistic billable utilization often runs at only 50–70% of total working hours.

This calculator starts from your target annual income, adds your business expenses, and divides by your realistic number of billable hours (not total working hours) to find the hourly rate that actually needs to be charged to hit your income goal.

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