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Estimate the daily rate to charge to reach your target net income, factoring in your costs and the days you can actually bill.
Rough estimate. Adjust for your legal status, tax regime and goals.
Your daily rate is the amount you bill per working day. Start from your target net income, add business expenses, gross up to the revenue needed once taxes and contributions are covered, then divide by the days you can actually bill.
Formula used here: required revenue = (net income + expenses) / (1 − tax rate), then day rate = required revenue / billable days.
A year has roughly 218 working days, but not all are billable: sales, admin, training, holidays and gaps between contracts eat into that total. Many freelancers bill between 180 and 210 days a year.
Overestimating this number is the most common mistake: it leads to a day rate that is too low and to working at a loss without noticing.
This calculator gives you a theoretical target. To know your real day rate, you need to measure the time actually spent per project and client, then compare it with what you invoiced.
That is exactly what Rytmely does: time is tracked by Client → Project → Label, so you finally see which engagements are profitable and which drag your real rate down.
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