Guides
Practical, transparent guides to help you work out what your time is worth and price it with confidence.
How to Convert Salary to a Contractor Rate
Turn a salary into a realistic hourly or day rate by accounting for benefits, expenses, unpaid time and billable hours.
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Read guideContractor Day Rate vs Salary: How to Compare Them Properly
Why multiplying a day rate by 260 days is misleading, and how to work out the salary a contract rate is really comparable to.
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Read guideEmployee vs Contractor: What Should You Compare?
How to compare a salaried offer with a contract offer using total package, realistic revenue, business costs and a risk buffer.
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Read guideHow to Price a Fixed-Fee Project Without Undercharging
Build a fixed-fee quote from delivery hours, admin time, external costs, contingency and markup, then sanity check the effective hourly rate.
3 min read
Read guideHow to Price a Monthly Retainer
Price recurring work using client hours, account management, an availability premium and a commitment discount.
3 min read
Read guideWhat Counts as Billable Time?
Which hours you can genuinely invoice, which ones you cannot, and how your billable percentage changes the rate you need.
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