Find the hourly and daily rate you actually need to charge — covering taxes, expenses, time off, and non-billable hours. Free, no signup, nothing stored.
An employee's $60,000 salary is paid across 2,080 working hours — about $29/hour. But as a freelancer, you can't bill 2,080 hours. After finding clients, writing proposals, invoicing, and admin, most independents bill 20–30 hours a week, and nobody pays you for vacation.
You also carry costs an employer used to cover: your own taxes and social contributions, software, hardware, insurance, and accounting. Your rate has to fund all of it.
That's why a sustainable freelance rate is usually 2–3× the equivalent employee hourly wage. The calculator above does that math with your real numbers.