Freelance Rate Benchmarker

Freelancers set hourly rates by guessing what feels competitive rather than calculating from their actual expenses, tax obligations, and income goals, systematically undercharging and discovering the shortfall only at tax time

Freelancers underquote projects by estimating total hours in their head rather than decomposing the brief into individual tasks, discovering the underestimate only mid-project when there is no practical way to renegotiate

Freelancers start projects with only a brief email thread as documentation, creating ambiguity about deliverables that clients exploit at project end to demand work that was never part of the original agreement