Open Rate Index
What your rate is worth.
Freelance rates in energy, offshore, marine and engineering — by discipline, seniority, setting and region, worldwide. Submitted anonymously by professionals. A band appears only once enough independent rates are in.
Rate bands, € per hour.
No bands published yet
The index opens with the first bands once enough rates are in.
A band is published only when at least ten independent professionals have submitted a rate for the same discipline, seniority, setting and region. Until then nothing is shown - a number built on three submissions would be worse than no number at all. Nothing you enter is stored against your name, and no count is ever published.
Add your rate.
Six choices and one number. Afterwards you see where your rate sits, if the band for your selection is out.
How the index works.
The rule
A band appears only once enough independent rates are in for that selection. Until then the bar stays empty. If a selection is too thin, the index shows a coarser one that does meet the rule: first without the setting, then across all regions, then across all seniorities — and says so.
A band is the middle half of submitted rates with the median, rounded to €5. No lowest or highest rate is shown.
What we store
Your rate, converted to euros per hour, and the choices from the form: discipline, seniority, setting, region, hour or day rate, and the experience range if you gave one. The date. A one-way hash that stops the same connection from counting twice for one selection; it is deleted after 90 days.
What we never store
No name. No e-mail address. No IP address. No free text. If you are logged in as a registered professional, the rate is marked as coming from a verified professional — not from which one.
Checks
Rates outside €20–€400 per hour are refused. Extreme values stop influencing a band once it has enough rates. A band that disagrees with the rates of verified professionals is held back until a person has looked at it. Nothing is seeded: a band exists only because professionals submitted rates.