Find your floorCover income, overhead, time off, and profit.
A rate-to-proposal system
Know your floor. Build a quote. Send it clearly.
Go beyond a basic rate calculator: turn your real costs into a risk-adjusted project price, then package it with a clear scope and proposal.
Free. Private. Your numbers never leave this page.
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Freelance rate calculator
Suggested hourly rate$100/hr
Adjust assumptions +
Price the riskAdd admin time, uncertainty, and urgency.
Define the scopeSet deliverables, revisions, and boundaries.
Send the proposalPresent one clear, defensible project price.
Not sure how to charge?
Choose the pricing model before choosing the price.
Answer five questions to compare hourly, fixed-project, retainer, and paid-discovery pricing—then save a private, printable client plan.
Your working numbers
From hourly rate to real projects.
Use these as a starting point. Adjust for scope, risk, urgency, and the value of the outcome.
Day rate$800Based on an 8-hour day
40-hour project$4,000Across 1,200 billable hours/year
Free project quote builder
A rate is only the floor. Build the real quote.
Account for delivery, client communication, project uncertainty, and rush work. The result is a planning estimate you can refine before it reaches a proposal.
Focused by designThis is not a general invoice, tax, or time-tracking suite. It is a focused workflow for pricing and scoping profitable client work.
Labor floor$3,600
Risk & rush buffer$540
Suggested project quote$4,150
Uses your $100/hr sustainable rate above. Round, validate the scope, and confirm direct costs before sending.
Your next stepSave the estimate, price recurring work, or put the quote into editable client documents.
New free calculator
Price recurring work without giving away your capacity.
Turn an hourly floor, delivery time, meetings, uncertainty, and commitment into a sustainable monthly retainer.
Project growing after approval?
Turn hidden extra work into a clear change order.
Measure extra revisions, meetings, and deliverables, see the effect on your hourly rate, and copy a client-ready message.
Finish the rate-to-proposal workflow
Turn the calculated quote into a client-ready offer.
The pack connects the numbers to the conversation: calculate the price, lock the scope, present the offer, and keep a reusable rate card.
- Project-pricing spreadsheet with editable assumptions
- Scope worksheet that exposes hidden work before quoting
- Proposal and rate-card templates for clear client presentation
- Free download—no email, checkout, or account
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Freelancer Pricing Pack
FreeDownload the free pack →Download the proposal, scope worksheet, rate card, and project-pricing calculator as one ZIP file.Evergreen guides