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Billable vs Non-Billable Hours: How Your Utilization Rate Sets What You Earn
What counts as billable, realistic utilization for solo freelancers, and how to compute the ratio that quietly decides what you really earn per hour.
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Pricing and profit, worked out loud.
Practical guides on rates, billable hours and what your time actually earns. Written while building CronLoom solo in Germany.
5 min read
Fixed-Price vs Hourly Billing for Freelancers: How to Choose
The honest trade-offs between fixed-price and hourly billing, how to compare them with your effective hourly rate, and when each model actually wins.
5 min read
How to Raise Your Freelance Rates (and Exactly Who to Raise Them On)
A practical method for raising freelance rates: find your worst-paying clients by effective rate, time the increase, send a plain email, and gain income.
5 min read
How to Set a Freelance Day Rate (And Stop Losing Money on Long Days)
A practical method to set a freelance day rate from your target hourly rate, with a premium, half-day rules and a way to check it against real tracked hours.
2 min read
How to Track Billable Hours Across Multiple Clients
A practical system for tracking billable hours when you juggle several freelance clients at once, without losing revenue to forgotten timers and fuzzy estimates.
3 min read
How to Calculate Your Freelance Hourly Rate (Without Underpricing Yourself)
A step-by-step method to work out the freelance hourly rate you actually need to charge, based on your income goal, expenses, time off and non-billable hours.
Try the numbers yourself
Free calculators, no signup: what to charge, and what you keep.