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Hourly Rate Calculator
Enter your numbers below. Locked fields update automatically from payroll and operating expenses.
Business & Labor Inputs
Enter your current business assumptions. These inputs feed the next steps of your pricing model.
Techs + owner/operator billing for their time in the field (or billable office time).
Updates from payroll wages and your technician and hours settings.
Updates from your payroll tax and contribution entries below.
Enter as a whole percent (e.g. 30 for 30%).
Results
LiveCalculated from labor assumptions, overhead, billable hours, and target margin.
Annual Overhead
Enter annual operating overhead and optional direct job costs used in hourly rate calculations.
Overhead categories, miscellaneous lines, and optional job costs when enabled.
Billable Hours
Define technician availability and non-billable time assumptions.
Default full-time hours.
Default days not worked.
Default paid holidays.
Default sick days per year.
Default safety / licensing / meetings.
Driving, callbacks, estimates, meetings (default 40% for service contractors).
Used to spread overhead and estimate annual revenue impact.
Detailed P&L Expense Inputs
Use the example numbers below or replace them with your own P&L expense amounts. Income lines are excluded.
Direct Job Costs / COGS (normally excluded from hourly overhead)Costs tied to specific jobs. You can choose whether to fold them into overhead using the switch below.
Payroll Details (these feed the labor inputs above)Annual payroll figures from your books. They feed the pay and burden fields above and your operating expense total.
Operating Expenses
Include Direct Job Costs in hourly overhead?On includes job-level costs in overhead for the hourly rate. Off keeps them out.
Recommended hourly rate
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Please fill in the fields to get a proper recommended hourly rate.