Working for yourself
A freelance rate calculator you can actually edit
Setting an hourly rate is mostly fear and guesswork. Let's replace the guesswork with arithmetic. Below is a saved calculation, loaded by ID straight from Instacalc's store — the same way any reader could fork it.
That widget is loaded with <instacalc src="59699"> —
the calc lives in Instacalc, not in this page. Update it there and every
site embedding it updates too.
The same calc, as a full iframe
Some authors prefer a sandboxed iframe over the script embed — no shared
JavaScript, fully isolated. Instacalc's canonical embed URL is
/embed/<id>, and that's exactly what "Copy embed code"
gives you:
Two embed styles, one source of truth. The script embed
(ic.js) renders into the page via shadow DOM; the iframe
embed sandboxes the whole calc. Both pull from the same Instacalc calc.
Prefer to start fresh? Open a blank calc and paste your own expenses.