Plumbing
Plumbing Overhead Calculator
Add up what a plumbing business costs to run before a single job is done, and what that is as a share of revenue.
Result
Overhead is what the business costs whether or not you work. Wages for people who are on jobs belong in job cost instead, and counting them here overstates overhead and underprices everything.
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About this calculator
Do technician wages count as overhead?
No. Anything that scales with the work is job cost. Overhead is what carries on when the vans stay parked.
What is a normal overhead rate?
It varies far too much to quote a figure worth trusting. What matters is that your pricing recovers whatever yours actually is, which is why this calculator asks for your own numbers rather than an industry average.
Why per working day?
Because it is the number that makes overhead real. A quiet Tuesday still costs what it costs.
The formula
overhead rate = monthly overhead / monthly revenue
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