What your hour is worth, what your side business really clears, and how you stack up.

Three free calculators for people building a business or a side business. Your numbers stay on your device.

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What’s your hour worth?

Know your number.

Yearly income you want ($)

Yearly business costs ($, optional)

Weeks worked a year

Hours worked a week

Billable share of those hours (%)

Tax set-aside (%, optional)

Check a quote (optional)

Project price ($)

Hours the project will take

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How it works

Billable hours a year = weeks worked × hours a week × billable share.
Your hourly rate = (target yearly income + yearly business costs) ÷ billable hours a year. This is the rate that covers both, before any tax.
Rate to charge = your hourly rate ÷ (1 − tax set-aside). With a 25% set-aside you divide by 0.75, so that a quarter of what you charge can go to tax and your hourly rate is what is left.
A quote’s hourly rate = project price ÷ the hours it will take.

If the billable hours come to 0 (0 weeks, 0 hours or a 0% share), there is no rate to divide out, and the calculator says so. A 100% tax set-aside, or a project of 0 hours, gets a message too, never a made-up number.

The billable share is the part of your working time someone pays for. The rest goes on admin, sales and finding the next client.