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Datasets we compile and verify ourselves: sourced, dated, downloadable, and free to reuse with a link.
- 2026-09-01 The Freelance Cost Index Monthly index of what a US freelance business costs to run: tax drag, IRS interest, platform take, card fees, cross-border cost and shelter room.
- 2026-08 Freelance rates benchmark What freelance writers, editors, designers, developers, VAs, grant writers, podcast editors, and translators charge: verified figures from published surveys, every source linked.
- 2026-09-26 Payment fees dataset A computed, reproducible dataset of what Stripe, PayPal, Square, Upwork, Fiverr, and Freelancer.com cost freelancers. CSV included.
- 2026-08-21 What the employed version of your work earns Median annual and hourly wages for eleven freelance-relevant occupations, straight from the BLS May 2025 wage survey: developers, designers, writers, editors, consultants, translators and more, with the all-occupations reference.
- 2026-08-21 What the employed version of your work earns in the UK Median gross annual and hourly pay for nine freelance-relevant occupations, parsed straight from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025 (full-time employees), with the all-employees reference.
- 2026-08-21 What Spain pays, by occupation group and region Gross annual salaries from the INE annual wage-structure survey, 2024 edition, pulled first-hand from the INE API: sixteen occupation groups by mean pay and every region by median, with the national references.
- 2026-08-22 Broker fees on one honest scenario Trading 212, Interactive Brokers, DEGIRO, XTB and eToro on one comparable trade: 1,000 euros of a US stock, commission plus published FX fee, each row linking its official schedule with the check date stated.
- 2026-08-23 LLC cost by state Filing fee, report fee and cadence, annual state tax and the recurring bill for all 50 states and DC. Sourced from each state, dated.
- 2026-08-21 Crypto exchange fees: the published numbers Base-tier spot maker and taker fees at Binance, MEXC, Kraken Pro and Coinbase Advanced, taken from each exchange's published schedule with the check date stated, plus what a 1,000 and a 10,000 trade actually costs at each.