Our mission
Meyy.info exists to make defensible pricing math accessible to freelancers, makers, and small businesses. Our mission is educational: we want every working photographer, Etsy seller, food-truck operator, tutor, translator, handyman, and small-business owner to understand the true cost of doing business, to be able to compute a price that recovers that cost plus a fair profit, and to be able to defend that price in client negotiations. We are not a marketplace. We are not a referral service. We are not a consulting firm. We publish calculators and guides, and we hold those calculators and guides to the standards documented on this page.
Pricing is high-stakes content. A wrong number on a freelance rate calculator can cost a working professional thousands of dollars per year. A broken formula on a food cost calculator can put a small bakery out of business. We hold ourselves to the same editorial standards you would expect from a financial publication — originality, accuracy, transparency, independence, and cadence — because the people who use our tools are making real financial decisions based on them.
Content creation standards
Every guide on meyy.info is original content written from scratch by a member of our editorial team. We do not scrape content from other websites. We do not rewrite other people's blog posts. We do not commission content farms. We do not publish AI-generated filler. Each guide starts with a real pricing problem — typically drawn from a question a reader has emailed us or a problem a member of our team has personally faced — and is built up from primary research: the underlying cost model, worked numerical examples using realistic inputs, industry benchmarks drawn from public sources, and the common mistakes that drain profit.
Our content follows the E-E-A-T principles that Google's quality raters use to evaluate online content: experience, expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness. Experience: every guide is written by someone who has personally faced the pricing problem the article addresses. Expertise: every formula is audited by a pricing analyst with formal finance or accounting training. Authoritativeness: every benchmark is cited to a public source — the SBA, SCORE, the IRS, the Freelancers Union, the PPA, the NRA, the ATA, or platform-issued fee schedules. Trustworthiness: our methodology is published in full, our corrections are dated and visible, and our advertising is clearly labelled.
Every guide meets a minimum length of 1,500 words. We do not publish 300-word listicles. We do not publish "top 10" articles. We do not publish content designed primarily to rank in search engines rather than to answer the reader's question. The structure of every guide is the same: real-world framing of the pricing problem, the underlying cost model with the formula written out in plain notation, at least one worked numerical example using realistic inputs, industry benchmarks with cited sources, and the common mistakes to avoid.
Author standards
Our content is written by a small editorial team composed of two roles. Pricing analysts have formal finance or accounting backgrounds and maintain our methodology and benchmark database. They are responsible for the formula accuracy, the benchmark sourcing, and the quarterly review cadence. Practitioner writers are working photographers, makers, food-business operators, tutors, translators, makeup artists, handymen, and event planners — people who personally face the pricing problems our tools solve. They draft the guides, supply the worked examples from their own client work, and pressure-test every calculator for usability before it ships.
We do not publish individual author bios with photos and LinkedIn links because the team is small and the work is collective — every guide is reviewed by at least two editors before publication, and every calculator is reviewed by both an analyst and a practitioner. We do not accept guest posts. We do not accept contributed content. We do not pay for placement. If you want to know more about how a specific article was researched, the sources are cited inline and you are welcome to email us with questions.
Review process
Every calculator and every guide goes through a multi-stage review process before publication. For guides, the practitioner writer drafts the article and submits it along with the worked examples and source citations. A pricing analyst then reviews the formula accuracy, verifies the arithmetic, and checks the benchmark citations against the original sources. A second editor reviews the article for clarity, structure, and tone. Only after all three reviews are complete does the article publish.
For calculators, the process is more rigorous because the math runs automatically. The pricing analyst drafts the formula in plain notation and the source citations. A developer implements the formula in client-side JavaScript and runs a battery of test cases — edge cases (zero inputs, very large inputs, negative inputs), regression tests against the documented worked examples, and cross-checks against the paired guide. The practitioner writer then runs the calculator with real client numbers and verifies that the output is defensible. Only after all four reviews are complete does the calculator publish.
After publication, every calculator and guide is reviewed on a quarterly cadence — see the update cadence section below — and material corrections are published within 48 hours of being reported. Our corrections policy documents the reporting and correction process in detail.
Update cadence
Pricing is not static. Etsy changes its transaction fee. The IRS adjusts the self-employment tax threshold. The Professional Photographers of America publishes a new benchmark survey. The American Translators Association updates its rate survey. Platform commission structures change. We review every calculator and every guide on a quarterly cadence — four times per year — against the most recent publicly available data, and we update dollar figures, fee percentages, and benchmark ranges as needed.
Each calculator and guide displays a "last reviewed" date in its metadata. When a material change occurs between quarterly reviews — a platform announces a fee increase, a tax threshold changes mid-year, a benchmark survey is superseded — we update the affected content as soon as the change is verified and publish a dated correction notice at the bottom of the affected page. Critical errors (broken formulas, incorrect fee percentages, factually wrong benchmarks) are corrected within 48 hours of being reported. Minor errors (typos, broken links, formatting issues) are corrected within two weeks.
Source citation policy
Every dollar figure, every fee percentage, and every benchmark range in our content is cited to a public, verifiable source. We do not invent numbers. We do not cite anonymous blogs, forum posts, or AI-generated content as primary sources. The sources we cite most frequently are the U.S. Small Business Administration, SCORE, the Freelancers Union, the Internal Revenue Service, the Professional Photographers of America, the National Restaurant Association, the American Translators Association, platform-issued fee schedules (Etsy, tutoring platforms, payment processors), and state-level cottage food law statutes.
Where a source is paywalled or survey-based, we cite the most recent publicly available summary and flag the date of the survey. Where a benchmark is contested or varies significantly by region, we cite a range rather than a single point estimate and explain the variance. Where a number is our editorial judgment rather than a sourced figure — for instance, a recommended target profit margin range — we say so explicitly. Our methodology page documents the data sources for each calculator family.
Corrections policy
Despite our review process, errors happen. When they do, we correct them promptly and visibly. Critical errors — broken formulas, incorrect fee percentages, factually wrong benchmarks — are corrected within 48 hours of being reported. Minor errors — typos, broken links, formatting issues — are corrected within two weeks. Significant corrections are noted at the bottom of the affected page with the date and a brief description of what was changed.
If you spot an error in any of our calculators or guides, please email us with the subject line "Correction request: [page URL]" and a description of the error and the correct figure (with a source citation if possible). We read every email and prioritise corrections from working practitioners who can cite the current figure. See our full corrections policy for the reporting process and update timeline.
Conflict of interest
Meyy.info is independent. We accept no affiliate commissions, no sponsored content, no paid placements, and no payment for inclusion in our calculators or guides. We do not link to products or services with affiliate tracking codes. We do not publish "best of" or "top 10" lists that rank products by referral payout. We do not accept gifts, free products, or free services in exchange for coverage. If a member of our editorial team has a financial relationship with a company we cover, they recuse themselves from coverage of that company.
Our revenue comes entirely from clearly labelled display advertising. We never accept advertising from companies whose products we review, recommend, or compare in our calculators or guides. Advertising slots are clearly marked as "Advertisement" or "Sponsored" and are visually separated from editorial content. We do not allow advertisers to review, edit, or approve editorial content. The advertising team and the editorial team operate independently, and the editorial team has final say on all content decisions.
AI disclosure
We use AI tools (large language models) in our content creation workflow, but we do not publish AI-generated content. Specifically, we use AI tools for the following tasks: brainstorming article structure, generating alternative phrasings during the editing process, fact-checking dates and figures against our source database, and proofreading for grammar and consistency. Every word that appears in a published guide or calculator description is written, reviewed, and approved by a human member of our editorial team.
We do not use AI tools to generate the underlying formulas, the benchmark numbers, or the worked examples — these are all produced by human pricing analysts and practitioner writers. We do not use AI tools to write complete articles that we then publish lightly edited. We do not use AI tools to generate the calculator JavaScript implementations — those are written and reviewed by human developers. If we ever change this policy, we will update this page first and date the change.
Advertising policy
Meyy.info is monetised through display advertising. We currently display ads through Google AdSense; we may add additional display-ad networks in the future. All advertising on the site is clearly labelled as "Advertisement" or "Sponsored" and is visually separated from editorial content. Ads may appear in the header, sidebar, between content sections, and in the footer — but never inside calculator results, never inside the calculator input panel, and never inside the worked-example or benchmark sections of guides.
We do not allow advertisers to target specific calculator results (for instance, an ad for a competing service appearing only when a user gets a "high" pricing result). We do not allow advertisers to sponsor specific guides or calculators. We do not allow advertisers to review, edit, or approve editorial content. The advertising team and the editorial team operate independently, and the editorial team has final say on all content decisions. Advertisers have no influence over calculator formulas, benchmark numbers, or guide recommendations.
If you see an ad on meyy.info that you believe violates these standards — for instance, an ad that appears to be sponsored editorial content, or an ad that appears inside a calculator result — please report it and we will investigate.
Questions about this policy
If you have questions about any aspect of this editorial policy, or if you believe we have violated it in any of our content, please contact the editorial team. We take policy violations seriously and will investigate and respond to every substantive report. This policy is reviewed annually and updated as needed; the date of the most recent review appears in the page metadata.