Playbooks
Price your freelance work
Price your freelance work: A price you can live on, worked out in one block. 1) Write down what you want to earn in a year, before tax, plus your yearly costs. 2) Count your billable days: weeks you work, times days a week, minus holidays and admin days. 3) Divide: earnings plus costs, divided by billable days, is your day rate.
The steps
- Write down what you want to earn in a year, before tax, plus your yearly costs.
- Count your billable days: weeks you work, times days a week, minus holidays and admin days.
- Divide: earnings plus costs, divided by billable days, is your day rate.
- Quote projects, not hours, once you know how long they take you: day rate times days, plus a margin.
- Raise your price for the next client, not the current one.
Your first move in Cutline
Put a 30-minute block on Sunday each month to check: did the rate hold?
Ask an AI
Tap the box to copy the prompt. Put the answer in the block's notes.
Make it a block
Add it to your week in Cutline: the steps go into the block, so the next one is always written down.
Put it in your week
One click makes it a block in your Cutline week, with everything above inside the block. Free.