FREE CONTRACTOR BUSINESS TOOL
Contractor Hourly Rate Calculator
Your customer price is not the same thing as what your business actually needs to produce. Use our free checkup to calculate a practical productive-hour target based on your schedule, costs, owner-pay goal and profit cushion.
What this calculator helps answer
How much does my business need to produce per productive hour? How much annual revenue does my current plan require? Is my current pricing carrying the overhead and non-billable time behind the job?
Why a normal hourly-rate formula can mislead you
Contractors spend time quoting, driving, buying materials, handling callbacks and doing paperwork. If you divide a desired salary by 2,080 hours, you can dramatically understate what each real revenue-producing hour has to support.
Our model separates direct job costs from the contribution each productive hour needs to create. That contribution still has to support overhead, owner compensation and the business profit target you choose.
Use actual completed jobs to verify the number
A planning target is a starting point, not a guarantee. Compare it against real completed jobs using actual hours and actual direct costs. That is why the full toolkit connects the business checkup to quote checking, job tracking, extra-work protection and completed-job feedback.