Savings Rate
Freelance Savings Rate Calculator
The Freelance Savings Rate Calculator gives you a real savings rate that accounts for the structural differences between freelance and W-2 income. You enter your annual gross revenue, business expenses, taxes paid, personal expenses, retirement contributions, and other savings or investments. The calculator returns your true savings rate as a percentage of after-tax income, your total annual savings, and a rough years-to-financial-independence estimate. Use it during your annual financial review. Most freelancers calculate savings rate against gross revenue and overstate it by ten to fifteen percentage points; the after-tax, after-business-expense rate is the one that maps to actual financial independence calculations.