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Overhead Rate Calculator

Most contractors under-allocate overhead — and find out the hard way when jobs they thought were profitable were actually break-even.

Calculate your overhead allocation rate

Pick a basis (typically direct labor for trades), enter annual numbers, get the burden factor to load onto every job.

Allocation basis

Direct labor is the standard for trades and construction.

Annual overhead (office, admin, software, vehicles, insurance, etc.)

$

Annual direct labor

$

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