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Freelance & Side-Hustle Rate Planner
Model your side-hustle pricing. Calculate exactly what hourly or task rate you must charge to meet your financial goals.
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Note: Only enter billable work hours, excluding sales, admin, and invoicing.
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How to Price Your Services as a Freelancer or Side-Hustler
Determining what rate to charge is one of the biggest bottlenecks for beginners in freelancing and side-hustles. Many freelancers make the mistake of copy-pasting standard online rates without factoring in their personal living expenses and overhead costs.
The Pricing Formulation Steps
Our rate planner uses a strict, logical bottom-up budgeting framework:
- Identify Target Annual Income: Your net monthly profit goal multiplied by 12.
- Identify Annual Operating Expenses: Subscriptions, hardware upgrades, internet, co-working spaces, etc.
- Identify Actual Workable Weeks: Subtracting national holidays, sick leave, and vacation weeks from the 52 weeks in a year.
- Identify Billable Work Hours: Enter the hours you spend *actually* doing client work, rather than search pitches or administrative emails.
Frequently Asked Questions
These are recurring expenses needed to run your side-hustle or freelance business. They include software subscriptions, laptop depreciation, internet bills, marketing costs, and co-working workspace fees.
Billable hours are the hours you actually spend doing target work that you charge clients for. Non-billable hours include writing emails, pitching clients, creating invoices, accounting, and updating your website portfolio.
Disclaimer: This freelance rate planner calculates rates based on target averages and linear distributions. Actual earnings depend on finding clients, project scope pricing, tax liabilities (GST and Income Tax), unpaid invoices, and market competition.
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MoneyOnRefer is not a registered investment advisor, credit provider, banker, or licensed tax/financial consultant. We do not provide investment advice, financial planning, advisory services, loan brokerage, or recommendations to invest in any financial instrument or loan product. Any financial decisions or commitments made based on the output of these calculators are done at your own sole risk. We strongly recommend consulting with a certified financial planner, registered accountant, or licensed banking professional before making any financial commitments.