contractrates.fyi

contractrates.fyi

The first crowdsourced hourly rate database for freelancers.

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We're crowdsourcing hourly rate data for freelancers, consultants, and any other type of self-identified contractual workers. By referring to our hourly rates database, we hope to help freelancers maximize their income and not under charge for their services.
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Launch tags:Freelance•Consulting
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Michael Patrick
IndexGuru
Maker
Hi everyone! Really excited to finally launch this after a few months of gathering data and heads down building 😊. I made this site because it's just an obvious market gap that can benefit a lot of people. Freelancing has become more and more common in the past few decades, even more-so lately following the coronavirus pandemic. Glassdoor exists for regular employees, levels.fyi exists for tech workers, payscale exists for aggregate information at a national scale. But what about freelancers? How can they figure out the hourly rates they should charge? How can they figure out what they're worth? Why does this not already exist? Well.. before today, the way to figure out your worth as a freelancer was by just slowly charging more and more until somebody said no. That could take months, years even. No more! Now freelancers can just check our site and see what other people are charging. Through that, they can figure out what they should charge. This site is and will always be free. The data is totally crowdsourced (and vetted). If you happen to be a freelancer yourself, I encourage you to share your rate data. Help us help you! The more data we have, the more value we can give to you and others. If you're not a freelancer, welcome! Maybe this tool can help you figure out how much you should pay next time you hire one. Or, maybe, in using this tool, you realize that your skillset is actually incredibly profitable and this motivates you to become a freelancer yourself. In that case, please just remember us after your first job, come back and share your rate. 😎
Farisa Ottaviano
@ushercakes That's a great idea! It's so important for freelancers to get paid what they're worth, and crowdsourcing data is an effective way to do that.
Michael Patrick
IndexGuru
Maker
@farisa_ottaviano ❤️ ❤️ Thank you!
Rhymer Espinosa
@ushercakes Looks fantastic. Rooting for your success. Congrats on the launch!
Michael Patrick
IndexGuru
Maker
Shon Paunan
@ushercakes All the best! Congratulations
Awee Gee
This is a great idea!Congrats on your launch!
Will Matz
Cool product! I added my rates in there. It looks like there isn't a ton of data in there yet... Could you augment the submissions you're receiving with some validated data from elsewhere?
Michael Patrick
IndexGuru
Maker
@william_matz Thanks Will! That is good feedback. It's true that some roles have way more data than others. The Frontend/FullStack/Backend engineering roles for example make up about 50% of the site data. Unfortunately, I've had a hard time sourcing that kind of information. If I could find it somewhere and take it ethically, I would, but I just haven't been able to find any reliable data outside of random posts on reddit and hackernews :/
Justin Johnson
Such a great idea. Living in freelance world for a bit before my startup, this was such a pain to manage. Almost like glassdoor for freelancers!?
Michael Patrick
IndexGuru
Maker
@justin_govy Love to hear that Justin, and yeah, you are exactly right! Glassdoor = pay transparency for full time/part time people contractrates.fyi = pay transparency for freelancers (without forcing you to sign up or download a mobile app)
Justin Johnson
@ushercakes this is such a good idea! Love it.
MJ Maquiling
Very useful! Congrats on the launch @ushercakes !
Michael Patrick
IndexGuru
Maker
@mary_joy_maquiling Thank you MJ :D
Elijah John G. Yarra
Tactiq
A lot of potentials!
Michael Patrick
IndexGuru
Maker
@ejgy Much potentials! Such wow! ❤️
Elijah John G. Yarra
Tactiq
@ushercakes 😁 👊
Nik Hazell
Zappi Ad Predictor
Really useful little resource - congratulations!
Michael Patrick
IndexGuru
Maker
@nik_hazell Hey love to hear that. Thanks Nik!
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