Freelance Day Rate Calculator
Day rate needed to hit a target income, accounting for non-billable days and expenses.
Billable days per year is usually much lower than working days — vacation, admin, sales, and gaps between contracts all eat into it, often leaving 100–150 billable days out of ~250 working days.
About the Freelance Day Rate Calculator
The Freelance Day Rate Calculator gives you an instant answer from just a few inputs — desired annual income (after expenses), billable days per year, annual business expenses. It runs entirely in your browser, so the numbers you enter stay private and never touch a server, and the result recalculates the moment you change a value. It's free to use with no sign-up, no limits, and nothing to install.
How to Use
- Enter Desired annual income (after expenses) into the first field of the Freelance Day Rate Calculator.
- Fill in the rest: Billable days per year, Annual business expenses.
- Your result appears instantly as you type — there's no submit button or page reload.
- Billable days per year is usually much lower than working days — vacation, admin, sales, and gaps between contracts all eat into it, often leaving 100–150 billable days out of ~250 working days.
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