How Much Can You Earn as a
Social Impact Consultant?
An interactive calculator and guide
This free interactive calculator and guide gives you instant access to…
- Exactly what a social impact consultant does
- Your potential annual income based on realistic consultant rates
- How many hours per week you would work (see how to work less and earn more!)
- Exactly what you would need to charge to match or exceed your current salary
- Your take-home pay after expenses

Hi, I’m Patty
My story is not uncommon. In 2008, the financial crisis eliminated my job, just when I was thinking about starting a family. I could not continue 60-hour workweeks, exchanging time with my children for business trips, managing endless schedule conflicts.… And, I needed to earn more money.
I made a decision to take control of my life—to do work that I love while still having time for my family.
Since becoming a social impact consultant, I have:
- Led strategy for a Nobel laureate to make gene editing safe and fair for all
- Mobilized scientists, corporations, and politicians to take action on plastic pollution
- Improved brain and mental health science with best-selling author Michael Pollan as we launched the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics

Why I Created StrategicHopeTM
I have been a social impact consultant for nearly twenty years, and it has transformed my life. I’m able to work on projects that I’m passionate about and earn an income that provides for my family. I want others to know that becoming a “change maker” is a path that is within reach and that it’s closer and more attainable than you might think.
When I first started, I didn’t have confidence that I could make a living as a consultant. I had no road map. I made mistakes, I second-guessed my pricing, and I wasted months trying to figure it all out. I made all the mistakes that you don’t have to make. The Social Impact Consultant Income Calculator is my first step to pay it forward and help others claim their future of income, purpose, and flexibility.
