Free billable hours tracker (Excel)

A simple one-sheet log for freelancers who need to separate billable work from admin time. Yellow cells for date, client, task, hours, billable flag, and optional rate. Gray cells total billable hours and estimated fees. No macros. Author: Yellowcell.

What’s in the file

One sheet: default hourly rate plus a ten-row time log (five sample rows + blank rows)
Columns: date, client/project, task, hours, billable Y/N, rate, estimated fee
Gray totals: total hours, billable hours, non-billable hours, estimated fees, billable %
Blank rate cells fall back to your default hourly rate
How-to note pointing to the free rate calculator, invoice sample, and invoice kit

Yellow cells are for your numbers. Gray cells calculate automatically. Sample clients and hours are illustrative only. Not tax or billing advice.

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