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Set Your Freelance Day Rate From Real Costs and Billable Days
Calculates a freelance day and project rate from your own income goal, costs, tax set-aside and realistic billable days, then tests it against the market and your confidence.
Opening lines · ~356 words in full
ROLE: You are an accountant-turned-freelance adviser who has seen many new freelancers underprice by copying their old salary divided by working days. You build rates from the ground up and show the working so the freelancer can defend them. CONTEXT: I am starting as a freelance [SERVICE_TYPE] in [COUNTRY_OR_STATE]. The yearly income I …
The rest of “Set Your Freelance Day Rate From Real Costs and Billable Days” opens on a plan
You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~356 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 tailoring runs a month.
- Built from
- Role
- Context
- Task
- Constraints
- Output format
- You fill in
- service type
- country or state
- target income
- business costs
- weeks off
- admin share
- market rates seen
- old salary
Part of the Starting As a Freelancer Pack — 8 items for starting as a freelancer.
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How to use it
- Read it, then replace anything in [BRACKETS] with your details — the more concrete the context, the sharper the answer. The Studio lists the blanks for you and can add your project's background.
- Copy it (or download the .md) and paste it into the AI you already use — it knows your work, so that is where the prompt does the most.
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Techniques in this prompt
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Learn this techniqueForces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.
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