A big fee can hide a low hourly rate once you count the hours and costs. Enter your fee, hours, and costs to see the truth — then track profitability across every client with the full tracker.
See the effective rate and margin on every client and project.
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Your effective hourly rate is the profit from a project divided by the hours you actually spend on it. A $5,000 fixed-fee project sounds great until you spend 100 hours on it — that is $50 an hour before you even count costs. Effective rate cuts through the headline fee to show what you truly earn per hour.
Because fee and effort are not proportional. Large projects often involve more revisions, coordination, and scope creep, which quietly inflate hours. A smaller, tightly-scoped job can pay a far better effective rate. Tracking profitability reveals which kinds of work are actually worth your time.
A ready-to-use spreadsheet (Excel & Google Sheets): a per-project table computing profit, margin, and effective hourly rate, with client comparisons — delivered instantly after checkout. AI-assisted, human-built; not financial advice.
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