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Charge what you actually need to

The rate you must charge — figured, not guessed.

Most rate sheets tell you what other people charge. This one figures YOUR number, backward from what you want to keep: enter your target take-home, your overhead, the share you set aside for tax, and — the part everyone gets wrong — your REAL billable hours, not a fantasy 40. Out comes the hourly, day, and week rate you have to average to actually pay yourself. Then log your projects and watch whether the work is really hitting that rate.

Available soon See what's inside
Instant download · Excel & Google Sheets · no macrosRate Calculator + Project Profitability tracker + rollup Dashboard + How-toRequired hourly / day / week rate, blended effective rate, and above/below-target per project
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Price from what you
want to keep — not a guess.

The actual file

This is exactly what you download.

Freelancer Rate & Profitability Calculator — the actual workbook, full size
How it works

Set the rate. Then hold the line.

A back-into-it rate calculator, a project profit tracker, and a one-glance dashboard — so your rate is a number, not a hope.

01

Start from your take-home

Enter what you want to actually pay yourself after tax, your annual overhead, and the share of revenue you park for taxes. The sheet works out the revenue you must bill to get there.

02

Use your REAL billable hours

Working weeks, days per week, and the honest billable hours in a day — rarely eight. Dividing by fantasy hours is the classic freelancer mistake; this makes you use the real number.

03

Get your rate three ways

Required hourly, day, and week rate — plus a monthly revenue target, your utilization, and a round-up-for-quoting suggestion. The rate you have to average to hit your goal.

04

Log every project

Enter a project's quoted fee and hours; the effective rate figures itself and lands Above or Below your target at a glance. Twenty rows, color-coded.

05

See your real blended rate

The dashboard shows your blended effective rate across all logged work — total fees ÷ total hours — next to the rate you were supposed to charge. The truth about your year.

06

Change one input, see it all

Every number is a live formula. Nudge your take-home target, tax %, or billable hours and the whole rate recalculates instantly — no rebuilding anything.

What's inside

Three working tabs. Zero macros. Every number a live formula.

  • Rate CalculatorGreen inputs for take-home, overhead, tax set-aside, and billable time — with the full derivation beside them: revenue you must bill, billable hours/year, and your required hourly / day / week rate, plus reality checks.
  • Project ProfitabilityA 20-row log: quoted fee + estimated/actual hours → effective rate, compared to your required rate, flagged Above or Below target. Turns the calculator into a tracker.
  • DashboardRequired-rate and blended-effective-rate hero cards, a 6-KPI ribbon (revenue, billable hours, take-home, overhead, tax set-aside, day rate), and a project-profitability summary — all live.
  • How to UseQuick-start, every definition, why the honest billable-hours number matters, the unlock password, and the disclaimer. A planning calculator — not tax or financial advice.
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$16 · one-time

Freelancer Rate & Profitability Calculator

$16, once. Completes the Freelancer Finance Pack alongside the Invoice Generator + Tracker and the Self-Employed Tax Deduction + Mileage Tracker — the set that answers what to charge, what you're owed, and what to set aside.

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Instant download · Personal/single-business license · A planning calculator — not tax, accounting, or financial advice. You supply the assumptions.
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