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Independent Contractor Agreement

Create an independent contractor agreement for a freelancer: scope of work, hourly, project or milestone pay, ownership of work, and confidentiality.

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What this document does

A general-purpose agreement a business uses to engage an individual freelancer or a small contractor business, covering the work and any future statements of work, deliverables and deadlines, hourly, per-project or milestone pay, the contractor's control over how the work is done, expenses, ownership of work product, confidentiality, insurance, and how either side can end it.

What it covers

  • Parties
  • The Work
  • Term
  • Compensation and Payment
  • Expenses
  • The Contractor Relationship
  • Work Product
  • Ending the Agreement
  • Additional Terms
  • General Provisions

A template you fill in yourself from your own answers. LeaseCraft is not a law firm and does not give legal advice; for advice about your situation, talk to a lawyer.

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Plain-language questions about the people, dates and terms.

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Questions about the Independent Contractor Agreement

The work the contractor will do, any deliverables and deadlines, how and when the contractor is paid, how expenses are handled, that the contractor controls how the work is done and uses its own tools, who owns the work product, confidentiality, optional insurance, and how either side can end the agreement.

Not by itself. Whether someone is legally an employee or an independent contractor can depend on how the working relationship actually operates, not only on what the agreement says. The agreement includes a short statement of this, and both sides should run the relationship the way the agreement describes.

Yes. Choose hourly pay with an optional weekly hour limit, one fee for the whole project, or two to four milestone installments with amounts and target dates. The milestone amounts must add up to the total project fee.

Yes. If you choose to, the agreement lets both sides add future projects by signing a separate statement of work, which then becomes part of the agreement.

No. The contractor stays free to work for others. You can include a narrower promise not to recruit each other's employees, which applies only as far as the governing law allows.

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