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Fees, pricing and true cost per item: free calculators, worked guides and tested spreadsheets for people who sell on Etsy.
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- What should I charge as a freelancer? Hourly rates for $40k to $100k take-home, by billable hours
To take home $60,000 as a freelancer with $6,000 of costs and 25% set aside for tax, you need $88,000 of revenue: $76.52 an hour at 25 billable hours a week. A table for $40k to $100k and 15 to 30 billable hours.
- How to price an Etsy item for a target margin (the formula, with fees included)
A 35% markup on cost is not a 35% margin on Etsy: after fees, a $20.80-cost ring priced at $28.08 keeps 29.3%. The exact formula for the price that hits your target margin, with worked examples.
- How to calculate the true cost of a handmade item (ring, bracelet and candle examples)
Materials from a recipe at weighted-average prices, your time, packaging, then Etsy's fees: a silver ring costs $14.89 to make and keeps $23.12 of a $38 sale. Three worked examples and the mistakes that understate cost.
- Etsy fees explained with worked examples: what you actually keep on a $38 sale
Every Etsy fee on real orders: listing, 6.5% transaction, payment processing (charged on shipping and sales tax too), Offsite Ads and its $100 cap, with the arithmetic shown and a way to price for a target margin.
- Etsy fees at every price, $5 to $500: what you keep (2026 table)
A table of Etsy's total fees and what you keep at 14 price points from $5 to $500, with and without an Offsite Ads sale. Shows why fees take a bigger bite of cheap items.
- Etsy Offsite Ads: what an ad sale really costs at every order size (and when the $100 cap helps)
On an Offsite Ads sale, Etsy's total cut jumps from about 10% to about 25% on most orders. A table at 8 order sizes, the 12% vs 15% rate, and the $100 cap, which only helps above about $667.