About RateCraft

RateCraft exists because freelance pricing advice splits into two useless camps: hype ("charge what you're worth!") and folklore ("double your salary"). Neither shows its work. We are a small independent team that has quoted, underquoted and re-quoted freelance work for years, and we built the site we wanted on day one: a rate calculator that displays every assumption, and guides that name their sources instead of inventing averages.

What we publish

One tool and three kinds of guides. The tool converts a target income into hourly, project and retainer prices using an explicit model — holidays, sick days, admin hours, tax allowance and profit are all knobs you can see and argue with. The guides cover pricing methods (comparison), pricing psychology (raising rates), getting paid (payment terms) and the evidence itself (how to read rate surveys).

Editorial standards

• Formulas over vibes. Every number we produce traces to an arithmetic chain you can audit on the page.
• Named sources. Claims about methods, laws and surveys cite published, verifiable sources — government guidance, professional associations, named authors — with links. We never invent benchmark figures.
• "Last verified" stamps. Factual pages carry the date their sources were last checked.
• Honest limits. Tax and legal topics are framed generally with an explicit "check your jurisdiction" — we are educators, not advisors. See the disclaimer.

Calculations run entirely in your browser; nothing you type is uploaded. Spotted an error or want a topic covered? Tell us — corrections are published, not buried.