What does an hour of your work really pay?
Four numbers, about a minute. You get a rough hourly rate once your costs, income tax and the Medicare levy are out, spread over every hour you work, not only the ones with a client in the chair.
Rough on purpose. It treats every cost as carrying GST, uses Australian resident tax rates for 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027 and takes off the small business income tax offset. Nothing you type leaves this page.
Open the free check
Pop your email in and the check opens straight away. You'll get the number on this page, and I'll send it to you too if you want it.
See where it all goes. The full Take-Home Hourly Rate tool: $59. Pay once, no subscription.
Or the Solo Kit: this tool and 4 more, $249. Bought one at a time: $335.
The full calculator shows where the money goes and how to fix it.
- Where every hour goes: what a client hour brings in, what costs take, what tax takes
- How you stack up against an employed stylist with annual leave, personal leave and super counted
- The price lift or extra booked hours that would get you to the take-home you want, from your figures
General information, not financial or tax advice. It assumes you're a sole trader with no other income, takes no super out (that's up to you), leaves out HELP repayments and the Medicare levy surcharge, and ignores PAYG instalment timing.