Burnout Calculator
Evaluate your workload, stress levels, and boundary violations to calculate your risk of freelance burnout.
Before you begin
Answer honestly in three short sections. There are no wrong scores—only signals about pacing, recovery, and boundaries you might want to adjust.
This is a self-reflection exercise, not a clinical assessment. It cannot diagnose conditions or replace care from a qualified professional. If you need someone to talk with, see findahelpline.com for international options. In Uganda, ask your clinic for current mental health referral lines or call emergency services if you are unsafe.
What is a burnout, and what goes on one?
The burnout risk calculator asks you a series of questions about your workload, stress levels, sleep, and work-life balance to produce a burnout risk score. It's a quick self-check.
Key components
- Work hours assessment — are you working too many hours?
- Stress indicators — physical and emotional signs.
- Recovery time — are you taking enough breaks?
- Risk score — your overall burnout risk level.
How to use this tool
- Answer the brief assessment questions honestly.
- Input your current weekly billable and non-billable hours.
- Review your burnout risk score.
- Read the recommended adjustments for your schedule and workload.
Why this matters
Freelance burnout doesn't happen overnight; it creeps up through overcommitment and poor boundaries. Identifying the warning signs early allows you to pivot before your health and business suffer.
Works well with
Weekly Planner
Plan your week in a time grid with goals, recurring blocks, drag-and-resize scheduling, and reflections — saved locally in your browser
Capacity Planner
Model weekly capacity against project commitments, see an eight-week forecast, and sanity-check new work before you say yes
Hourly Rate Calculator
Find the minimum hourly rate you need to hit your income goals
Frequently asked questions
No. It is a self-reflection aid only. It cannot assess disorders and is not a substitute for qualified support.
Each section averages your 1–5 responses (one workload item is reverse-scored), scales to 0–100, and the overall highlight uses the highest of the three section scores.
So one strained area does not hide behind stronger answers in other areas.
Up to three recent summaries are kept in localStorage on this device only.
Treat it as a prompt to rest, delegate, reset boundaries, and reach out to trusted people or professional supports — not as a label.
No. The copy avoids alarmist clinical framing while still encouraging healthy pacing.
Yes — a short history list appears after you finish; older entries roll off after three saves.
Try the weekly planner and capacity planner to rebalance time, plus hourly rate and deadline tools when scope pressure is financial as well as temporal.