ACADEMY
Learn to price your work. One calculator at a time.
Eight tools and guides. Each one covers one part of the pricing puzzle — so you can build a proposal that holds up when the project gets complicated.
BUILD YOUR PRICE
5 steps to a winning proposal
Business Overhead
What overhead is, how to calculate your overhead rate, and how to bake it into every quote.
Hidden Costs Explained
The indirect costs most freelancers never quote — and the fastest way to lose margin on a project.
Contingency Budget
How to calculate a risk buffer and how to present it in a proposal without losing the client.
Profit Margin Calculator
Find out what margin you’re actually making — and whether your pricing is sustainable before you send the quote.
How to Price Your Proposal
Put all 5 numbers together — and send a quote that actually holds up when the project gets complicated.
Ready to build your proposal?
You know your rate, your overhead, your costs. Now put all 5 numbers together.
GO DEEPER
Supporting guides & calculators
Hourly Rate Calculator
Convert your target income into an hourly rate that accounts for non-billable time, holidays and overhead.
Fixed vs. Variable Costs
The difference between costs that stay flat and costs that scale — and why it matters for pricing.
Cost Estimating Methods
Four estimation methods, when to use each, and how to calculate — from analogous to bottom-up.
Soft Costs Explained
Permits, design fees, admin, insurance — the soft costs that belong in every project quote, always.
