Know your worth

What should designers charge?

An honest freelance rate calculator, built for designers. No signup, no email gate. Tell us seven things about your work and we'll show you your number – and how it compares to what designers like you are actually charging.

£
What you want to keep after tax and costs. We'll estimate tax based on your region.
Accounting for holidays, sick days, and slow periods.
46 wks
Real freelancers only bill ~60% of working hours. The rest is admin, sales, breaks.
25 hrs
£
Software, hardware, accountant, insurance, co-working.
Your rate
£0/ hour

Based on your inputs, this is what you'd need to charge to hit your take-home goal.

Day rate
8 hours
–
Workshops and consulting
Week rate
40 hours
–
Focused sprints
Monthly retainer
80 hours
–
Two days a week, every week
Benchmark
–

Built this because designers should charge what they're worth.

I'm Nick, building Dotted, a client portal for freelance designers. Proposals, revision rounds, file delivery, payments, in one link. So you can stop chasing and start designing.

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