{"id":640,"date":"2012-02-17T17:32:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T22:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/http:\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/fun-with-the-freelance-calculator\/"},"modified":"2016-12-26T14:16:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T22:16:45","slug":"fun-with-the-freelance-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/fun-with-the-freelance-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With the Freelance Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hourly-work-goals-for-freelanc\" height=\"135\" src=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hourly-work-goals-for-freelanc1.png\" width=\"491\" \/> <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>I&#39;ve known for a while that<a href=\"http:\/\/freelanceswitch.com\/rates\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Freelance Switch offers this super-nifty calculator that will help you determine how much money you should charge per hour<\/a> based on your cost of living and quantity worked. I hadn&#39;t really taken advantage of it yet, because when you first get started as a freelancer there&#39;s about a million and one things on your to-do list that don&#39;t make money directly, and this was nowhere near the top of the list. But last night I made up for it by running the calculator several times, and recording the output. Putting the data I pulled from the calculator, I made three separate charts: the first was based on bare-bones survival (no eating out, no health insurance, etc.), the second was based on a decent living (hiring a bookeeper, budgeting for retirement) and the third was for &quot;making it&#39; (budgeting for concerts, higher rent, decent Christmas gifts). Considering each chart, I plugged in different combinations of potential hours worked per day (my hours are on the low side because I&#39;d like to devote a few hours daily to my blog or novel). This gave me hard numbers for how much I need to work to survive\/succeed as a freelancer. Or conversely, how much I need to charge to work the hours I want to work. I think this will help motivate me to either work harder or negotiate harder for more pay. It may also allow me to\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>stress out and work 24\/7 because I know when I&#39;m making a living wage.\u00a0 <\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>I thought I&#39;d share this as it is a way of using the freelance calculator that maybe you haven&#39;t thought about.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>  from <a href=\"http:\/\/paperbackpusher.posterous.com\/fun-with-the-freelance-calculator\">Paperback Pusher<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve known for a while that Freelance Switch offers this super-nifty calculator that will help you determine how much money you should charge per hour based on your cost of living and quantity worked. I hadn&#39;t really taken advantage of it yet, because when you first get started as a freelancer there&#39;s about a million &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/fun-with-the-freelance-calculator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fun With the Freelance Calculator<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,19,20],"tags":[179,182,346,376,377,982],"series":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-books","category-writers","category-writing","tag-business","tag-calculator","tag-expenses","tag-freelancers","tag-freelancing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17215,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/17215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}