Freelance Hourly Rate Calculator

What it does

Most freelancers guess their rates. This Excel calculator fixes that. Enter your income goal, vacation days, taxes, insurance and business costs to get your break-even and recommended rate. Includes market benchmarks for 15 professions. Works in Excel and Google Sheets. One download, no subscription.

• 
  The Freelance Rate Calculator2021 · ▲244

  Get your minimum viable freelance rate

• 
  Freelancer Rate Calculator2019 · ▲165

  Calculate your day and hourly freelance rate

• 
  Hourly Rate Calculator2018 · ▲157

  Find out your ideal hourly rate

• 
  What Is My Day Rate?2018 · ▲326

  A simple tool to calculate your freelance rate

• 
  Freelance Project Tax Calculator2017 · ▲125

  Calculate taxes and take-home pay for your freelance work

• 
  WYHR2023 · ▲101

  Find your minimum hourly rate

• 
  PaymentKit▲466

  Billing that survives a processor shutdown

  Commerce · 13d ago · paymentkit.com

• 
  Equitybee Benchmark▲241

  Compare your startup equity grant for free.

  Commerce · 26d ago · equitybee.com

• 
  Fundraisly▲1,544

  AI fundraising agent that finds investors and books meetings

  AI · Jun 2026 · fundraisly.com

• H6
  Homebrew 6.0.0▲1,481

  Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 6.0.0. The most significant changes since 5.1.0 are a new tap trust security mechanism, the new faster, smaller, default internal Homebrew JSON API, sandboxing on Linux, better defaults informed by our user survey, many brew bundle improvements, improved performance and initial support for macOS 27 (Golden Gate). Happy to discuss any questions here!

  Dev tools · Jun 2026 · brew.sh

• PU
  Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes▲1,181

  hope you enjoy

  Life & fun · Jun 2026 · vorpus.github.io

• 
  Upstream▲977

  The inbox designed for humans and agents

  AI · Jun 2026 · upstream.do

• 
  Goldfish▲962

  Press Option. It knows your work and replies like you

  AI · Jun 2026 · goldfish.sh

• IM
  I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments▲822

  Life & fun · Jun 2026 · hackernewstrends.com