HUSTLE RATE
Hustle Rate field guide

How to Calculate Your True Side-Hustle Hourly Rate

Revenue screenshots hide materials, fees, software, travel, refunds and unpaid work. Your net hourly rate makes very different hustles comparable.

Practical method

Do this in order

  1. Add all revenue actually received
  2. Subtract stock, materials, fees, travel, software and refunds
  3. Track sourcing, admin, selling, fulfilment and customer-service time
  4. Divide net profit by total hours
  5. Compare the result with other uses of your time
  6. Review whether the rate can improve through repeatability
The decision

Write the pass condition before you begin.

A good test can produce three useful outcomes: continue, adjust one variable, or stop and keep the lesson. Extending a weak test indefinitely is not persistence; it is avoiding the decision.

Build the 90-minute testRecord a real result

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