# Price your freelance work

URL: https://gocutline.com/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
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.
4. Quote projects, not hours, once you know how long they take you: day rate times days, plus a margin.
5. 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.

```prompt
Help me price my freelance work. I want to earn [amount] a year before tax. My yearly costs: [amount]. I can work [weeks] weeks a year, [days] days a week. Work out my day rate, a project price for a typical [project, how many days], and how to say the price to a client in one sentence.
```

## Make it a block
[Add it to your week in Cutline](https://app.gocutline.com/?lib=playbooks/price-your-freelance-work): the steps go into the block, so the next one is always written down.

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