Free tool
Labour hourly rate calculator
Most rates are set by copying what someone else charges. This works yours out from the bottom up: what you want to earn, what it costs to run the business, and how many hours you can genuinely bill.
Free, no sign-up, nothing to enter but the numbers. Your figures stay in your browser.
Vehicle, fuel, insurance, tools, phone, accounting.
After leave, public holidays and sick days.
Not the hours you work — the hours you can charge for. Travel, quoting and paperwork are not billable.
- Charge at least
- R318/hour
- Billable hours a year
- 1,320
- Total to recover
- R420,000
This is your break-even rate: it covers your costs and pays you what you asked for, with nothing left over. Anything you charge above it is profit or contingency.
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