LABOR COST · OVERHEAD · BILLABLE HOURS

Painting Labor Rate Calculator

Turn your own annual labor cost, overhead, and billable hours into a clear hourly labor billing rate for estimating and job planning.

Rate Reference

Optional details for print, CSV export, and saved rate calculations.

Business Name (optional)

Rate Name (optional)

Calculation / Rate Reference (optional)

Calculation Date

Note (optional)

Annual Cost Base

Use your own business numbers. No industry labor rate, wage, overhead, or profit assumptions are preset.

Productive Labor Cost / Owner Labor Allowance ($ / year)

Enter the annual employer cost of people performing production work. Include the wage and employer-paid burden or benefits you choose to treat as labor cost. Owner-operators may use an annual owner labor allowance for planning.

Overhead ($ / year)

For example: office and admin, rent, vehicles, insurance, software, non-job-specific tools, and other business overhead you want this labor rate to recover.

Avoid double counting: Do not enter a cost in overhead if it is already included in productive labor cost.

Billable Labor Time

Enter total annual billable hours directly, or derive them from productive crew size and paid hours.

Calculation Method

Billable Hours Preview –

Productive Crew Size (FTE)

1.0 FTE equals one full-time equivalent.

Paid Hours per FTE / Year

Non-Billable Paid Hours per FTE / Year

Total Billable Hours / Year

Derived method: productive FTE × (paid hours per FTE − non-billable paid hours per FTE).

Profit Markup & Rate Comparison

Profit markup is applied to calculated cost per billable hour. This is markup on cost, not profit margin.

Profit Markup (%)

Current / Planned Labor Billing Rate ($ / hr) (optional)

Sales tax is not added. Tax treatment varies by jurisdiction and service.

Calculate & Save

Calculate the rate, save this setup in your browser, or load a previously saved calculation.

Saved data stays in this browser and is not sent to an external server.

LABOR RATE · BILLABLE TIME

Labor Billing Rate

Calculated Labor Billing Rate $0.00/hr before sales tax · based only on your inputs

Cost / Billable Hr$0.00/hr

Billable Hours / Year0.00 hr

Target Labor Revenue$0.00

Cost Breakdown

Calculate the rate to see the annual cost and hourly breakdown.

Billable Time Basis

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This calculator spreads the annual costs you enter across billable labor hours. Job materials, subcontractors, equipment, disposal, travel, and other direct job costs are not included unless you intentionally included them in the annual cost base. This is a planning tool, not accounting or tax advice.