A sustainable rate cannot come from industry rules of thumb. Pay, on-costs, downtime, vehicles, administration, material risk and investment differ by business.
Calculate with your own numbers
Determine genuinely productive hours and allocate overhead consistently. Review tax, payroll and costing assumptions with accounting or tax advisers.
- Capture direct employment cost
- Separate productive and non-billable time
- Include overhead and investment
- Allow for risk and reasonable profit
- Use job costing to adjust