Business calculators for people who'd rather be profitable than busy.
Practical business math for freelancers, consultants, creators, and solo operators. Know your numbers before you accidentally build yourself a shitty job.
Start with the flagship tool: the Freelance Hourly Rate Calculator. It accounts for expenses, taxes, savings, unpaid work, and slow months before you send another quote based on optimism and caffeine.
If the rate still feels weird, the next place to look is billable capacity. The Billable Hours Calculator exists to separate your actual invoiceable hours from the heroic nonsense your calendar never agreed to.
Pick your starting point
Six calculators, one connected pricing system. Each tool links to the next logical step so you never have to guess what comes after.
Start with billable hours
If your capacity assumptions are fuzzy. Know how many hours you can actually invoice before you set a rate.
Start with hourly rate
If you already know your billable capacity. Get the baseline rate your business needs after expenses and reserves.
Use project quote
When pricing fixed-fee work. Turn your hourly baseline into a quote that includes risk, admin, and margin.
Price a retainer
For ongoing monthly work. Price scope, meetings, overhead, risk buffer, and margin on purpose.
Plan revenue targets
Work backward from personal take-home to the gross revenue, project volume, and lead volume you need.
Use effective hourly rate
After a project ends. Audit what you actually earned per hour once the hidden work finished showing up.
Guided paths
Guided first steps
A step-by-step path after you know you want the first pricing sequence.
Price a project
Baseline rate, fixed quote, scope creep guardrails, then post-project audit.
Fix undercharging
Audit what you actually earned, then rebuild the pricing floor.
Plan recurring revenue
Revenue target, retainer price, effective rate, and boundary review.
Start with your baseline
Open the Freelance Hourly Rate Calculator first. Every quote, retainer, and revenue target gets less stupid when the baseline is real.
Pressure-test capacity
Check how many hours are actually billable after admin, sales, meetings, and time off stop pretending to be optional.
Guides
Read the plain-English formulas behind the calculators without generic finance-blog sludge.