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Freelance Pricing and Project Workbook
Build a billable calendar, measure realized rates and connect fixed project quotes with delivery budgets, revisions and payment milestones.
Build a billable calendar, measure realized rates and connect fixed project quotes with delivery budgets, revisions and payment milestones.
Start with the question you need to answer, then choose the tool or worked example that uses the same cost boundary and time period. The guides explain the assumptions behind each calculation. All sample amounts are hypothetical; replace them with your own records before making a plan.
Calculators
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Freelance Rate Calculator
Work out the hourly rate that covers your income goal, time off, business expenses and the tax rate you enter.
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Billable Hours Calculator
Turn a realistic annual work calendar and billable utilization into billable hours, nonbillable capacity and…
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Effective Hourly Rate Calculator
Compare collected revenue and direct-cost contribution per total work hour, including admin and revisions that…
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Fixed Project Price Calculator
Build a fixed project quote from delivery costs, a chosen cost contingency and a target margin, keeping the…
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Project Remaining Budget Calculator
Reforecast a fixed-fee project using costs already incurred and the work still required, preserving overruns…
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Project Backlog Capacity Calculator
Compare accepted unfinished work with productive weekly capacity and a delivery horizon, exposing both…
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Blended Team Billing Rate Calculator
Weight two role billing rates by actual planned hours and compare the resulting fees with the included…
Billable Time
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How to Set Your Freelance Rate
Set a freelance hourly rate from the income you need: billable hours, expenses, your tax rate and a check…
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Billable Utilization: Choose the Right Denominator
Measure billable hours against a stated capacity denominator and use utilization to plan realistic freelance…
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Comparison
Effective vs Quoted Hourly Rate
Compare your quoted rate with revenue per actual project hour and per total working hour, including revisions,…
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Annual Revenue from Billable Hours
Build an annual service revenue model from working weeks, capacity, utilization, and realized fees, with…
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Price for Nonbillable Time and Overhead
Allocate business expenses over realistic billable capacity and keep nonbillable labor separate from cash…
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Price Service Capacity Around Planned Time Off
Calculate the revenue effect of planned leave and recovery time, then test rates and workload without treating…
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Price a Retainer for Reserved Capacity
Model a retainer as reserved service capacity, with included hours, overages, delivery costs, and…
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Set a Minimum Booking Fee from Job Economics
Price small service jobs with setup time, delivery effort, direct costs, and schedule disruption instead of…
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Calculate a Rush Project Premium
Price an accelerated deadline from added costs, displaced contribution, and delivery risk, with an explicit…
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Rate Increases and Client Retention Scenarios
Find the client volume needed to preserve revenue or contribution after a rate increase, while treating…
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Comparison
Utilization vs Realization for Service Revenue
Separate how much capacity is billable from how much reference fee value becomes earned revenue, then identify…
Fixed Projects
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Comparison
Hourly vs Project Pricing: Which to Choose
Hourly and fixed project pricing compared: who carries the risk, how to turn an hourly rate into a quote and…
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Build a Scope Budget for a Fixed-Fee Project
Translate deliverables into a fixed-fee cost budget with time allowances, direct expenses, contingency, and an…
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Contingency vs Profit Margin in Project Quotes
Separate an allowance for uncertain delivery costs from the profit margin remaining after those costs, with…
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Price Revision Rounds Without Hiding the Work
Budget review cycles, feedback consolidation, and production changes separately, then define the boundary…
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Price a Change Order from Incremental Work
Estimate a project change with added effort, removed work, rework, expenses, and schedule effects before…
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Include Subcontractors in Project Quotes
Build subcontractor costs into a fixed-fee quote alongside briefing, review, integration, contingency, and…
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Calculate Project Profit Margin with Clear Costs
Measure a project margin using earned revenue and an explicit cost boundary, then distinguish contribution,…
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Estimate to Complete a Fixed-Fee Project
Forecast remaining effort from unfinished work, then combine it with actual cost to reveal expected final…
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Project Deposits and Milestone Cash Timing
Schedule project receipts and delivery costs to expose temporary cash gaps, while keeping deposits separate…
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Build Service Package Tiers from Delivery Costs
Compare service packages by incremental scope, delivery hours, contribution, and capacity rather than by…
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Review Project Pricing After Delivery
Reconcile quoted and actual project economics, isolate price and cost variances, and turn the findings into…
Service Operations
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Project Backlog vs Available Delivery Capacity
Convert accepted unfinished work into a dated capacity plan, keeping delivery hours, project value and…
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Retainer Rollover: Track Future Hour Obligations
Reconcile unused retainer hours by expiry date and test the future capacity they require, without treating…
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Milestone Acceptance Delays and Cash Timing
Map delivery, customer acceptance, invoicing and collection as separate dates to see how approval delays…
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Price Billable Travel Time and Trip Expenses
Build a travel quote from service hours, travel time and trip expenses, then distinguish accounting profit…
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Build a Client Meeting Cost Budget
Estimate meeting costs from every attendee's time, preparation and follow-up, then test cadence changes…
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Project Handoffs: Review and Rework Costs
Compare a handoff check with the expected rework it may prevent, using explicit failure probabilities,…
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Comparison
Scope Reduction vs a Price Discount
Compare a lower fee for unchanged work with a narrower deliverable, using only costs and hours that the…
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Fixed-Fee Cancellation Cost Scenarios
Model a stopped project using entered settlement terms, incurred costs, unpaid commitments and refunds without…
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Time and Materials with a Not-to-Exceed Cap
Track eligible time and expenses against an entered billing cap, then forecast the cost of remaining work…
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Build a Blended Team Billing Rate
Weight a team's billing rate by planned role hours, then test how a different seniority mix changes cost and…
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Comparison
Subcontractor Markup vs a Management Fee
Compare a percentage added to supplier cost with a fixed coordination fee, including the management effort…
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Billable Write-Offs: Trace Lost Fee Value
Reconcile unbilled effort, invoice concessions and delayed collections so the same lost fee value is not…
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Service Software Seat Costs and Client Work
Model software seat minimums, active usage and renewal timing, distinguishing a cost allocation from a…
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Outsourcing Admin: Required Sold Hours
Estimate how many released hours must actually generate additional contribution to cover an administrative…
Reference tables and worked examples
Inspect the intermediate numbers and the limits of the model.
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Billable Capacity and Revenue Table
Convert a hypothetical 40-hour, 48-week calendar into billable hours and service revenue at different…
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Project Contingency and Margin Reference
Keep a cost contingency separate from revenue-based margin when converting a hypothetical $3,000 delivery…
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Fixed Project Quote Worked Example
Build and reforecast a hypothetical fixed project quote from internal labor costs, outside expense,…
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Backlog and Deadline Capacity Reference
Match a 320-hour project backlog with weekly delivery capacity and a deadline, including zero capacity and…
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Worked Example: Backlog Capacity and Collection Delay
Work through an overloaded delivery schedule and a delayed client receipt, showing why capacity and cash…
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