Resources for Freelancers

Creator Pricing Calculator

This incredibly handy calculator helps creatives and freelancers calculate sustainable rates based on monthly expenses, taxes, and billable time.

You can use it to work out rates per hour, day, month, or project.

Built by: Stella Achenbach

Tools & Subscriptions Audit Calculator

This calculator helps you audit your tools and subscriptions to help you figure out what you pay for and what you actually use.

It helped me reduce my subscription spend by 44%, and saved another small business £5,500 in annual costs.

Built by: Shivani Shah (that's me 👋)

The 2025 Freelancer Rates Report

Here's a rare research report that covers a wide range of freelance professions and industries. Alongside the usually represented crew of content writers, designers, and developers you have data for sound engineers, data scientists, events managers, storyboard artists, CRM consultants...

Get information about day rates, experience levels, contract lengths and bookings, and highest paid skills.

Built by: The team at YunoJuno

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Bectu Rate Cards (UK)

UK-based freelancers in media and entertainment: if you're ever unsure about what to charge, this is exactly where you should look. Bectu publishes rate cards for crew and behind-the-scenes professionals across film, TV, live events, theatre, and the arts.

They also provide a great guide on recommended minimum terms and conditions for anyone not covered by an agreement.

Provided by: Bectu

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Solopreneur Expense Calculator (US)

US-based freelancers: this calculator helps you figure out your reimbursable business expenses based on the percentage of your home that you use for your business.

Use it as a guide, and make sure you consult a qualified accountant or tax professional before claiming them.

Built by: Jesse Friedman

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Estimate your Self Assessment tax bill (UK)

UK-based freelancers: Officially estimate your tax bill for the 2025-2026 tax year directly through the UK government's portal.

Provided by: UK Government

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IRAS Tax Calculators for Freelancers (SG)

All the tax calculators you could possibly need as a freelancer working in Singapore. This IRAS page includes calculators for income tax, rental income tax, profit and loss, eligibility for parenthood tax rebate, and more.

You'll find calculators for both resident and non-resident freelancers.

Provided by: Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS)

🚧 I'm working on a page with key tax dates for freelancers in different countries, with links to official sources, to help make tax planning a bit easier.

Clarity Action Plan

Pricing confidence starts with clarity on your positioning. The Clarity Action Plan from Tasmin Lofthouse is a 90-minute strategy session to help you align your brand positioning with your goals, services, and audience.

Get the clarity you need to be more confident about your rates and have better, more profitable conversations with prospects.

Offered by: Tasmin Lofthouse

The Digital Marketing Union

The DMU is by far my favorite Slack community of independent marketers. I've been a member since October 2020, and I could not imagine freelancing without it.

It's full of kind, smart, generous freelancers who chat all things freelancing—including fees and payments.

Founded by: Dan White

Being Freelance Community

Being Freelance started as a podcast in 2015, and over time grew into a community with tons of virtual and in-person activities.

I adore the unofficial tagline: Come and meet your new BFFs (Being Freelance Friends).

Founded by: Steve Folland

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The Free Coalition for Developing Countries

The Free Coalition for Developing Countries is a community for BIPOC freelancers, marketers, and developers from developing countries. The FCDC provides mentorship, cohorts, free courses, and paid internships to members to help them become more confident about charging higher rates.

One look at the testimonials on their website and you can see: community members are thriving with the FCDC's help!

Founder: chima mmeje

Freelancer Magazine

Technically, Freelancer Magazine is part-magazine (obviously), part-community. Members get access to the quarterly digital or print magazine, entry into the 'Find a Freelancer' Directory, events, virtual community coworking sessions and, importantly, freelance business planning meetings.

Founder Sophie Cross created this super useful Freelancer Cash Flow Template to help you get a sense of what your freelancing financial year will look like.

Founded by: Sophie Cross