What Should I Charge?
This calculator is built for sellers, freelancers, and contractors who want a fast pricing anchor without overcomplicating the first pass.
Business toolkit
Pricing, profit, and payout tools for sellers and freelancers
Use quick calculators to price offers, check margin, pressure-test break-even targets, build cleaner invoices, and sanity-check what a sale or project really leaves behind.
The site still keeps a small set of fee calculators for Stripe, PayPal, and Etsy, but the main focus is evergreen pricing and profit math that is easier to maintain and easier to reuse across different kinds of work.
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Featured calculator
Use the project pricing calculator without leaving the homepage
Start with a pricing anchor, then move into profit, invoice, or payout tools from there.
Calculator
Project pricing calculator
Start with your target hourly value, expected hours, direct expenses, and a buffer to build a quote you can defend.
Result
What Should I Charge
Work from your target hourly value toward a project quote that still feels worth it.
- Suggested project price
- $1,311.00
- Buffer amount
- $171.00
- Effective hourly rate
- $99.25
Breakdown
Plain-English math so the result stays easy to explain.
- Base labor value$1,020.00
- Project expenses$120.00
- Buffer %15.0%
Popular tools
Start with the calculators most people reuse
These pages stay close to evergreen pricing, discount, margin, bundle, and payout questions.
Cost-Plus Pricing Calculator
This calculator helps product sellers and service businesses turn a cost base into a simple selling price without losing sight of the resulting margin.
Target Margin Pricing Calculator
This calculator works backward from the profit share you want to keep, which makes it useful when you care more about margin discipline than a simple cost-plus formula.
Discount Impact Calculator
This calculator helps sellers and freelancers see how discounts change price, profit per sale, and total profit instead of looking at the discount rate in isolation.
Bundle Pricing Calculator
This calculator helps you price a bundle from the combined regular value, your combined cost, and the discount you want to offer.
Wholesale Pricing Calculator
This calculator helps sellers move from retail price to wholesale price while keeping profit, margin, and retailer markup opportunity visible.
Pillar guides
Read the five walkthroughs behind the main calculator workflows
Use the guide library when you want the reasoning behind pricing, margin, marketplace fees, freelance rates, or break-even math before opening the calculators.
How to Price a Product
Use true product cost, target margin, fee estimates, and discount planning to set a product price you can defend.
How to Calculate Profit Margin
Use a simple profit margin formula, understand the difference from markup, and apply the number to real pricing decisions.
How to Calculate Marketplace Fees
Break marketplace fees into clear layers so you can estimate payout, compare channels, and avoid underpricing products.
How to Set Freelance Rates
Set freelance rates from income goals, expenses, billable hours, and pricing model instead of guessing from a crowded market.
How to Calculate Break-Even
Use fixed costs, contribution per sale, and realistic pricing assumptions to find the point where a product or offer starts paying for itself.
Want the full guide library? Pricing, Profit, and Rate Guides.
Core paths
Start with the strongest pricing, freelance, and builder entry points
These cluster paths are the fastest way to move from the big pricing questions into the calculators and templates that support them.
Pricing and profit paths
Start with the core pricing, margin, and break-even pages before you branch into longer-tail tools.
Freelance pricing paths
Use the freelance cluster when the real question is what to charge, how to quote it, or how to keep the rate defensible.
Calculator builder entry points
Use the builder when you want a calculator you can reshape instead of only filling out a fixed page.
Who it is for
Built for sellers, freelancers, and contractors
Use the same lightweight toolkit whether you sell products, package services, or invoice projects.
For sellers
Use margin, markup, and break-even tools to pressure-test product pricing before fees and costs compound.
For freelancers
Quote projects faster, turn hourly targets into flat rates, and keep payout planning visible before you accept the work.
For contractors
Build clearer invoices, include tax and extras in the right order, and make commission or payout tradeoffs easier to explain.
Evergreen first
Pricing and profit tools come before fee calculators
- Profit margin calculator
- Markup calculator
- Cost-plus pricing calculator
- Target margin pricing calculator
- Target markup pricing calculator
- Target profit pricing calculator
- Minimum profitable price calculator
- Break-even calculator
- Discount impact calculator
- Coupon profitability calculator
- Bundle pricing calculator
- Bundle discount profit calculator
- Wholesale pricing calculator
- Commission calculator
- What should I charge?
- Hourly to project rate calculator
- Invoice total calculator
- Freelancer net income calculator
- Price to net 100
- Price to net 500
Calculator hub
Browse the full calculator library
Use the calculators hub to jump between pricing strategy, discounts, bundles, wholesale, payout, and fee tools without hunting through the homepage.
Guide library
Read the five core walkthroughs
Use the guides library when you want the reasoning behind the pricing and profit math before you test your own inputs.
Secondary fee tools
Keep fee math available without making it the whole identity
- Stripe Fee Calculator
Use this page to test sale amounts, compare net payout, and understand how Stripe's percent plus fixed fee changes each order.
- PayPal Fee Calculator
Use this page to test offers, compare PayPal against direct processors, and see how much revenue turns into actual payout.
- Etsy Fee Calculator
This page blends Etsy's common transaction, payment, and listing costs so you can see what a product sale may actually leave behind.
- Payment processing fee calculator
Compare processor-style payouts without turning the whole site into a fee directory.
- Stripe vs PayPal Fees
This comparison page keeps the math simple so you can test one sale amount and quickly see which payment flow may fit your pricing better.
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FAQ
Quick answers
Short answers for the questions that usually come up first.
What does ValueQuarry help with?
It helps with pricing, profit, payout, invoice, bundle, discount, and fee calculations for sellers, freelancers, and contractors.
Are the calculators meant to replace accounting software?
No. They are planning tools built to help you sanity-check a price, margin, invoice, or payout quickly before you open a spreadsheet.
Do the calculations happen on the server?
No. The calculators update directly in the page so the site stays fast and easy to use.