RateRight — Freelance Rate Calculator (FREE)
Most freelancers price their work by gut feeling, then wonder why it never covers their bills. This spreadsheet reverse-engineers your rate from what you actually need to earn then turns that rate into a quote and an invoice, automatically.
How it works:
- Answer six questions — your income goal, business costs, tax rate, profit margin, weeks worked, and billable hours. Get your exact hourly, day, and weekly rate.
- Build a quote add your line items and hours, and it totals using your calculated rate.
- Turn that quote into an invoice Bill To, Project, and every line item pull in automatically. Nothing retyped.
✓ What's included, free:
- The full Rate Calculator — every input, every formula, the complete working calculation, not a stripped demo
- The full "How It Adds Up" breakdown, so you see exactly where your number comes from
- Quote Generator with up to 4 line items
- Invoice Generator that auto-pulls straight from your Quote
- Color-coded so you always know what to touch — blue is yours to edit, black updates itself, amber is your answer
No macros. No subscription. No catches — it's a normal, unlocked Excel file. Duplicate it, edit it, keep it forever.
Outgrowing the free version? The full edition unlocks 8 line items on both Quote and Invoice Generator, and fully editable currency — plus four more tools built the same way: a Freelance Finance Dashboard, a Tax & Expense Organizer, a Client & Project CRM, and a Time Tracker + Invoice Generator. Link's inside the file.
Answer six questions. Know your number. Stop guessing what to charge.