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Minimum rate calculator

The rate you need isn't the one the person next to you charges: it's the one that covers your costs, your tax, your time off and the weeks with no project. This works it out.

Social contributions, software, accountant, kit, insurance, training.

%
wks

Holidays, public holidays, sick leave and stretches with no client.

h

Rarely more than 25. Selling, admin and learning are work too, but they don't get billed.

Your floor

€62.43/ h

€499.41/ day

Annual revenue needed
€60,428.57
Billable weeks
44
Billable hours per year
968

It's a floor, not a price. Below this figure you're paying to work.