What hourly rate do you need as a freelancer? From target income, costs and billable hours - locally in your browser. No upload.
No. Everything runs in your browser - your file never leaves your device. How this is verifiable
The most common mistake the self-employed make: dividing their hourly rate like an employee salary by working hours. That fails because not every hour is billable - sales, bookkeeping, training, holidays and sick days nobody pays for. This calculator works the other way: from the net income you want to the rate you must charge. It adds your business costs, grosses up for tax, adds a profit margin as a buffer and divides the result by the hours you can really bill in a year.
The calculation runs entirely locally in your browser, in pure JavaScript - nothing is uploaded and nothing is stored. Realistically only 50 to 60 percent of working time is billable; billable hours per week times working weeks gives your billable hours a year. The target income is divided by (1 minus the tax rate) so your desired net survives tax; the margin covers dry spells and profit. The result is an hourly rate, a day rate and the annual revenue you need. Change an input and everything updates instantly.
An honest note: this is a guide, not tax or business advice. The tax rate is a rough blended figure (income tax, and possibly trade and sales tax behave differently in detail); use your actual rate. What the market pays is a second limit - your calculated rate is the one you need, not necessarily the one you can charge. Plan reserves for tax, pension and gaps between jobs. Amounts in euros as an example - the maths applies to any currency.
| Input formats | Form inputs (no file) |
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| Processing | Locally in your browser (JavaScript) |
| File upload | None |
Limitations: A guide, not tax or business advice. The tax rate is a rough blended figure - use your actual rate. What the market pays is a second limit. Plan reserves for tax, pension and gaps between jobs. Amounts in euros as an example - the maths applies to any currency.
No. The calculation runs entirely locally in the browser (pure JavaScript); nothing is sent or stored.
Because you only bill billable hours (nobody pays for sales, bookkeeping, holidays), you carry tax and costs yourself and need a buffer for dry spells. The rate covers all of that.
For most self-employed only 50 to 60 percent of working time. On a 40-hour week that is about 20 to 25 billable hours. Enter your realistic value here.
No, it is a rough blended figure for the gross-up. Income, trade and sales tax behave differently in detail. Use your actual rate and talk to your tax adviser when in doubt.