Freelance Rate Increase Calculator

Make the raise concrete

Most freelancers undercharge for too long because the upside of a raise feels abstract. This makes it concrete: enter your current rate, the increase you are considering, and your billable hours, and see the new rate plus the extra income across a year.

Seeing that a 10% bump adds thousands a year makes the slightly awkward client conversation a lot easier to have.

How to raise rates without losing clients

Give notice, apply increases at natural breakpoints (a new year or new project), and raise new-client rates first. Good clients expect rates to rise over time; the ones who leave over a fair increase were often your least profitable anyway.