Cost & Budgeting

Maintenance Labour Rate Build-Up Calculator

Maintenance Labour Rate Build-Up Calculator takes base wage, burden %, benefits, your indirect cost pool, paid hours and your own measured wrench time and returns a fully burdened $/hr rate per trade, and the effective cost of an hour of actual wrench time. Burdened Rate = base wage + (base wage × burden %) + benefits + overhead per hour, where overhead per hour is your own indirect pool divided by your own total paid technician hours. Effective Rate = burdened rate ÷ wrench time %, which is what an hour of work actually done costs you. Overtime is the same build-up with your own overtime multiplier applied to the base wage only. Nothing is pre-filled with an outside figure — no standard labour rate, no typical burden percentage, no assumed wrench time. Every value on every sheet is one you entered or one computed from what you entered, against the As-of date you set on 1. Setup, never today's date.