Designer Neil Tortorella offers guidelines for figuring out how much you should charge on an hourly basis for freelance work.
Taking into account a target salary, associated costs, and holidays, sick days and vacation days, he calculates a realistic figure for billable hours. The guide includes specific figures and goes through the calculations step by step - a helpful resource for those trying to figure out what to charge for their work.
The Motley Fool discusses how to set yourself up for a comfortable - or an "I'm just docking my yacht here to lunch at the country club" - retirement.
You'll find the usual financial advice suspects here, like "pay yourself first," "save your money" and a whole lot about maxing your retirement fund early and often, so nothing too earth-shattering. But for you young'uns who haven't started storing your nuts for a long, wrinkly winter, this is a great primer.
Oh, and the key to that yacht thing? Invest wisely:
To be seriously rich, you cannot worry that your neighbors are suddenly plowing their money into some moonshot company. You must learn to live with people telling you that what you're doing is "extremely risky" when you know the risk is overstated. And most importantly, you have to learn to be wrong on occasion, and recognize that as the cost of floating upstream.
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