The decision guide / 11 calculators

Pay & rates

Translate pay formats and make freelance cost assumptions explicit.

Worksheet / 01 / 5 tools

Translate salary and pay formats.

Move between hourly, weekly, monthly, and annual gross figures while keeping paid hours, paid months, and working weeks explicit.

Salary to Hourly

Divide annual salary by explicit working hours to compare pay formats.

Use this as a gross comparison and include unpaid time if you want an effective working-hour view.

Open Salary to Hourly

Weekly Pay

Calculate gross weekly pay from an hourly rate and explicit paid hours per week.

Use this for a gross weekly pay comparison when the hourly rate and paid schedule are known.

Open Weekly Pay

Worksheet / 02 / 2 tools

Model raises and bonuses.

Apply a signed pay change or a stated bonus percentage without treating variable compensation as guaranteed base pay.

Pay Rise

Apply a signed percentage change to a current gross pay amount and show the resulting pay.

Use this to model an increase or decrease explicitly; a negative percentage represents a decrease rather than being clamped away.

Open Pay Rise

Bonus

Calculate a gross bonus amount from a base pay figure and an explicit bonus percentage.

Use this to separate a stated gross bonus percentage from base pay and avoid treating a bonus as guaranteed income.

Open Bonus

Worksheet / 03 / 4 tools

Price freelance work around capacity.

Separate a planning rate, project scope, day convention, and billable utilization. A higher rate does not establish demand or replace a written scope.

Freelance Rate

Spread desired income and explicit annual costs across billable hours.

Use this planning model to expose billable-time and cost assumptions, not as a market-rate promise.

Open Freelance Rate

Day Rate

Convert a gross hourly rate into a day rate using explicit paid hours per day.

Use this for a transparent day-rate comparison when a working day is defined by paid hours.

Open Day Rate

Project Rate

Estimate a project charge from hours, an hourly rate, and explicit project costs.

Use this planning model to expose labor and named project costs without claiming a market rate or guaranteed margin.

Open Project Rate

Utilization Rate

Calculate billable hours as a percentage of available hours for a defined period.

Use this capacity-planning metric to make billable-time assumptions explicit without treating utilization as a promise of demand.

Open Utilization Rate

From calculation to decision

Choose the right lens.

Read the result alongside its definition, not as a standalone score.

How we document formulas and limitations

Comparing two pay offers?

Put both figures on the same gross period and include the paid-hours or paid-months basis. Benefits, leave, taxes, overtime, and unpaid time remain separate parts of the comparison.

Assessing a raise or bonus?

Keep a signed raise separate from a bonus calculation. The arithmetic shows the stated percentage; it does not establish eligibility, withholding, timing, or guaranteed payment.

Setting a freelance project price?

Estimate billable hours, named costs, and nonbillable capacity before treating an hourly or day rate as workable. Review scope risk and payment terms separately.

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