Freelance Income Calculators
Freelancing pays for skill and time, but only billable hours pay. Admin, pitching, and revisions do not. These calculators help you set a rate and estimate income that survives the unpaid hours.
Price from your real costs and target income, then check it against what the work can actually bill.
Billable hours are smaller than you think
Proposals, revisions, invoicing, and slow clients are real hours. Freelance rate calculator works backward from an annual target. Project pricing and service calculators help when you quote flat fees or weekly client loads.
Strong starting points
- Freelance rate: minimum hourly to hit a take-home target.
- Virtual assistant, copywriting, tutoring: model weekly clients and costs.
- Resume writing, notary, translation: per-unit fees and hidden hours.
- Read is freelancing worth it and is freelance projects worth it for quoting.
- Freelance project pricing: flat fee from hours and overhead.
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Freelance Rate Calculator
Find the minimum freelance hourly rate to hit your annual income target after expenses, vacation weeks, and a tax reserve.
Open calculator →Freelance Project Pricing Calculator
Price a freelance project from estimated hours, your target rate, revision buffer, expenses, and profit margin.
Open calculator →Copywriting Income Calculator
Estimate copywriting income per month after acquisition time, revisions, and a tax reserve.
Open calculator →Social Media Manager Income Calculator
Estimate social media manager income from retainers, clients, software costs, and hours.
Open calculator →Virtual Assistant Income Calculator
Estimate VA income from hourly rate, clients, hours per client, and tool costs.
Open calculator →Bookkeeping Side Hustle Income Calculator
Estimate bookkeeping income from monthly client fees, hours per client, and software costs.
Open calculator →Tutoring Income Calculator
Estimate tutoring income after cancellations, platform fees, prep time, and a tax reserve.
Open calculator →Resume Writing Income Calculator
Estimate resume writing income per month after revisions, platform fees, and hours per resume.
Open calculator →Notary Side Income Calculator
Estimate notary income from signings, fees, travel, supplies, and certification costs.
Open calculator →Translation Side Income Calculator
Estimate translation income from word volume, rate per word, platform fees, and editing time.
Open calculator →This is an estimate, not advice
Every result here is a rough model based only on the numbers you enter. Sidequity is an informational tool and does not provide professional, tax, legal, investment, or financial advice, and it makes no income guarantees. Any tax set-aside is a planning placeholder, not a tax calculation.
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