Official employee-wage evidence · Transparent methodology

Modeled Freelance Benchmark

Use certified local employee-wage evidence where available, or a clearly labeled U.S.-anchored international reference for any supported freelancer country.

Employee-wage percentiles are not freelancer-rate percentiles and do not directly measure career stage.

Choose the work

Search any supported title. We match your job title to the closest occupation in our wage database.

Occupation or service

Searches 98 core occupations and 1,794 active aliases.

Choose your country

Your country controls local-benchmark availability, local-source presentation, and display currency. It does not estimate your personal costs.

Where are you based?

Controls approved local-benchmark availability, source presentation, and display currency. It does not estimate your taxes, expenses, cost of living, or personal minimum.

Your benchmark result

Official employee wages, TransparentRate's modeled planning conversion, and any U.S.-anchored comparison remain visibly separate.

Primary only when release-certified

Official Local Employee Wage Benchmark

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Modeled Freelance Planning Benchmark

Official employee wage statistic × TransparentRate's provisional 1.75 freelance-conversion coefficient. The modeled result is not an official government freelancer-rate statistic.

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Separate comparison · Never labeled local

U.S.-Anchored International Reference

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The selected occupation's direct, proxy, or model source will be shown here. This number is never labeled local wage evidence.

Lower—P25 employee wage × 1.75

Median · default planning reference—P50 employee wage × 1.75

Upper—P75 employee wage × 1.75

Modeled Freelance Planning Band

Derived from available employee-wage P25–P75 values and the provisional 1.75 coefficient.

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Source and methodology details

Default planning reference: —
Employee-wage source: —
Source treatment: —
Freelance conversion: employee wage × 1.75 provisional planning assumption
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Not included: No 1.30 target, Client Market multiplier, PPP adjustment, or universal geographic adjustment.

The Modeled Freelance Planning Band is derived from employee-wage percentiles. It is not an observed freelancer-rate distribution, confidence interval, survey range, client budget, or personal minimum.

Why is this different?

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Cross-country differences are directional only. Pay basis, employee population, occupation classification, statistic and source vintage differ; two hourly values are not perfectly comparable.

For cross-border work, treat client market, currency, scope, urgency, fees, and negotiation leverage as quote context. They do not rewrite the official occupation source or the primary benchmark.

Optional Quoting Guidance

Engagement context Optional

These details can help you think about your quote, but they do not change the underlying wage benchmark.

How did this opportunity reach you?

Platform or intermediary fee percentage

Gross-up only. A fee never reduces the benchmark.

Project circumstances

Standard timeline and scope Rush or disruptive deadline Unusually scarce expertise not represented by the occupation Unusually complex or uncertain scope Guaranteed recurring volume or retainer Client has stated a firm budget constraint

Compare with your personal minimum Optional

The occupation benchmark estimates a market reference. This separate calculation uses only the financial assumptions you enter.

Desired annual personal income after taxes

Annual business expenses

Estimated annual tax reserve

Benefits and retirement reserve

Annual contingency reserve

Weeks off per year

Billable hours per working week

Methodology boundaries

The 98-core catalog includes the approved Accountant, Bookkeeper, Lawyer / Legal Consultant, and Paralegal / Legal Assistant splits; Compliance Officer remains unmapped.
Official employee-wage values and TransparentRate's modeled freelance planning benchmarks remain separate.
Context Only local records are secondary references and Unsupported or suppressed records remain unavailable.
The provisional `1.75` coefficient is applied once. The former `1.30` target multiplier is removed.
Acquisition channel and project conditions provide guidance only and never alter the benchmark.
PPP and Client Country are absent. All 157 previously supported countries remain selectable; countries without certified local data receive a separately labeled U.S.-anchored international reference.
UK ASHE 2025 is provisional; record-level CV and missing-percentile warnings remain visible, and revised 2025 data requires a refresh.
Canadian record-specific vintages and native annual units are preserved. When CBS does not publish a wage cell, local wage data is unavailable and the technical reason remains visible in the result.
Australia preserves ABS May 2025 weekly means and RSE cautions; Germany preserves BA December 2024 monthly medians, requirement levels, suppression and lower-bound qualifiers; Sweden preserves SCB 2025 monthly salary dispersion and unavailable cells.
Weekly and monthly sources remain in their official native periods. They are never silently converted to hourly values or compared to the hourly U.S.-anchored reference as if the units matched.