Freelance day rate calculator
First work out your hourly rate from your own numbers — the day rate grows out of it. No sign-up.
From an hour to a day
- If a client buys your whole day, they buy all eight hours: you can't sell them to anyone else that day.
- Day rate = hourly rate × 8. At €59 an hour, a day costs €472.
- If the day includes travel, prep or a report, count those too: a client's day can be longer than eight hours.
Working out your rate is half the job
The calculator tells you what to charge. The timer shows what you actually get: how many hours you worked today, how many of them are paid, and how much is left until your daily target.
A rate without tracked hours is a promise to yourself that nobody checks.
Five of your numbers, not someone else's median
Going by someone else's rate makes no sense: it's built from someone else's life — another city, another tax, another share of paid hours. Yours comes from five numbers, and all of them are about you.
Common questions
Why not 75 hours ÷ 21 days?
75 hours is what sells over a month in pieces. When a client takes a whole day, the rest of that day can't be sold, so the day costs eight hours.
Day rate or hourly?
A day rate suits work that comes in days: a shoot, a workshop, a day on site. If the work breaks into hours, hourly is fairer.
How do I work out a weekly rate?
The same way: the day rate times the working days in the week.
What if a client needs half a day?
Half a day costs half the day rate only if you can really sell the other half. If not, the day is still taken in full, and it should be priced in full.
Rate, hours and projects in one place
A minute on how it works day to day.
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