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Your hourly rate expressed as a day rate, a week, a month, and a year, so a quote and a plan use the same number.
Set the working day and week you actually quote against.
The maths
A day rate is the hourly rate times the hours in a billed day, and a week is that day rate times the days you bill. The annual figure deliberately uses your real billable hours rather than the weekly figure times 52, because nobody bills 52 weeks.
Worked example
At $85 an hour with an eight-hour billed day, the day rate is $680 and a five-day week is $3,400. That is about $14,733 a month while you are working — but across 1,000 billable hours the year comes to $85,000.
Replace the figures above with your own — the result updates as you type.
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Questions
Only if the booking genuinely reduces your costs or risk — a long guaranteed engagement might. A one-day booking does not, and discounting it just prices your admin at zero.
Because a year has about 4.33 weeks per month, not 4. Using 4 understates your monthly figure by roughly 8%, which is a meaningful error once it compounds across a year of planning.
More than half the day rate is normal — usually 55–65%. A half day still consumes the context switch and often blocks the rest of the day from another client.
No. It multiplies your rate by hours a client pays for, which is why it uses the billable figure from the billable hours calculator rather than a full-time year.
Next step
The hourly rate below which the work costs you money — calculated from what you need to take home, not from what feels reasonable.
Open calculator →What every hourly rate is worth per day, week, month, and year — at billable hours a freelancer can actually reach.
Open calculator →The hours you can genuinely invoice in a year — which is never the 2,080 a full-time salary is built on.