Free client rate calculator (Excel)

A simple one-sheet calculator that turns target take-home, a tax cushion, and billable hours into an hourly floor, day rate, and project fee. Yellow cells for your inputs. Gray cells for the math. No macros. Author: Yellowcell.

What’s in the file

One sheet: target take-home, tax cushion %, billable weeks and hours
Day length and project hour estimate with contingency %
Gray outputs: required revenue, hourly floor, day / half-day rate, project fee
Sample numbers you can replace before you quote a client
How-to note pointing to the free invoice sample and the invoice kit

Yellow cells are for your numbers. Gray cells calculate automatically. Tax cushion and billable-hour assumptions are illustrative only. Not tax or pricing advice.

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