Why does this ask about weeks I will not be paid for?

Because it is the difference between the rate you set and the income you get. At 40 hours a week you have 2,080 hours in a year on paper and about 1,840 once holidays, illness and the gaps between clients are out. A rate priced against 2,080 leaves you roughly 12% short of the income you set out to earn, every year, quietly.

Is this the same as converting a salary?

No, and they are separate tools here for that reason. A salary is paid every week of the year, so converting one uses all 52; a freelance rate has to cover the weeks nobody is paying you. Quoting an employee's hourly figure is one of the commonest ways to under-price freelance work.

Not included. The figure is what you need to invoice, before whatever you owe. What that is depends on how you are registered in the Philippines, which is a question for the BIR or an accountant rather than for a calculator on a hiring site.

Is there a floor on what I can charge here?

Yes: profiles on RemoteHire.ph state an hourly rate of at least ₱100. It is a floor, not a suggestion, and most people here are well above it.

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Freelance rate calculator

Start from the income you want, take out the weeks nobody is paying you, and see the rate that actually gets you there.

The income you want, every month₱60,000

₱60,000

Before tax, in pesos.

Hours you can bill in a week40 hours

40h

Billable hours, not hours at the desk: admin, pitching and email are not billed.

Weeks a year you will not be paid for6 weeks

Holidays, illness, and the gaps between clients. This is the number most rate calculators quietly set to zero.

Charge at least

₱391an hourabout $6.23 an hour

₱60,000 a month is ₱720,000 a year. At 40 billable hours a week over 46 paid weeks you have 1,840 hours to sell, so the rate is ₱720,000 ÷ 1,840. The dollar figure is an estimate at today's reference rate.

How to use this

Put in the monthly income you want to end up with, in pesos.
Set the hours a week you can actually bill. This is working hours minus the ones that go on admin, pitching and unpaid revisions, so it is usually lower than the hours you sit at a desk.
Set the weeks in a year you will not be paid for: holidays, illness, and the gaps between clients. Six is a modest starting point, not a generous one.
Read the rate. If it is higher than you expected, that is the calculation doing its job.

How the number is worked out

The income is annualised first, then divided by the hours you can actually bill: fifty-two weeks minus the unpaid ones, times the hours a week. Dividing a monthly figure by a month of hours is the shortcut that makes this arithmetic look easy and gets it wrong, because it prices the year as if every week were paid.

₱40,000 a month, 40 billable hours a week, 6 unpaid weeks. That is 1,840 billable hours in the year rather than 2,080, so ₱40,000 × 12 ÷ 1,840 = ₱260.87 an hour. Price against the full 2,080 instead and you get ₱230.77, which is 12% short of the income you set out to earn.

Billable hours are not working hours

The number this asks for is the one people get wrong. Billable hours are the hours somebody is paying for. The time spent writing proposals, answering messages, invoicing, chasing an invoice, and redoing something that was not scoped properly is all real work and none of it is billable.

For most people that is meaningfully fewer than the hours they spend working. Putting your working hours in this box produces a rate that only works if you never do any of that, which is why it is worth putting in the honest number even though it makes the answer larger.

What this cannot tell you

It is arithmetic on your own assumptions. It does not know what your market pays, what a client will agree to, or whether the income you typed is achievable at the hours you typed. Nothing here is stored or sent anywhere.

Tax is not in it, and neither are the platform fees you would pay somewhere else. The figure is what you need to invoice, before whatever you owe.

Questions

Why does this ask about weeks I will not be paid for?: Because it is the difference between the rate you set and the income you get. At 40 hours a week you have 2,080 hours in a year on paper and about 1,840 once holidays, illness and the gaps between clients are out. A rate priced against 2,080 leaves you roughly 12% short of the income you set out to earn, every year, quietly.
Is this the same as converting a salary?: No, and they are separate tools here for that reason. A salary is paid every week of the year, so converting one uses all 52; a freelance rate has to cover the weeks nobody is paying you. Quoting an employee's hourly figure is one of the commonest ways to under-price freelance work.
What about tax?: Not included. The figure is what you need to invoice, before whatever you owe. What that is depends on how you are registered in the Philippines, which is a question for the BIR or an accountant rather than for a calculator on a hiring site.
Is there a floor on what I can charge here?: Yes: profiles on RemoteHire.ph state an hourly rate of at least ₱100. It is a floor, not a suggestion, and most people here are well above it.

Convert a salary instead Make an invoice See the rates people here state

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