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Rate Card
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-06-28
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-consulting
Build a consulting/freelance rate card and pricing structure — and the floor rate to not go broke. Use when asked to set freelance/consulting rates, build a rate card, decide what to charge, package services, or move off hourly billing. Produces a rate card — your minimum viable rate (from real targets), tiered packages, pricing models (hourly/day/project/retainer/value), and how to present and defend it.
What to give it
▸Target income — (annual take-home you need), and your costs/overhead + tax allowance.
▸Realistic billable capacity — billable days/hours per year (not 100% — admin, sales, holidays eat ~30–40%).
▸Your services — what you offer, and which are commodity vs. high-value.
▸Market context — rough rates peers charge, and your positioning (junior/senior/specialist).
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓The floor rate is computed from real targets + realistic (not 100%) billable capacity
✓Multiple pricing models are explained with when-to-use-each
✓Productised tiers turn "how much per hour?" into "which package?"
✓Includes language to present and defend the rate (anchor on value/ROI)
✓Pushes away from pure hourly toward value/project pricing where it fits
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not pick a rate by gut — compute the floor from income/costs/capacity, or you'll quietly run at a loss
Do not assume full billable capacity — ~30–40% goes to sales/admin/holidays; pricing on 100% underprices badly
Do not default to hourly — it caps income and penalises you for being fast; package and value-price where possible
Do not justify price by effort/cost — clients pay for ROI; anchor there
Do not present one rate — tiers convert better and lift the average deal
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
<div data-pm-skill="rate-card"></div>
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