Overhead Recovery Calculator
Find the hourly contribution needed to recover monthly overhead across billable hours.
Set up your calculation
An illustrative example is loaded. Replace its values with your measurements, costs or documented settings.
Calculation
Your result
- Overhead recovery
- 20 USD/h
- Recovery with markup
- 20 USD/h
The quote handoff carries your inputs and assumptions. Only an explicit base cost is suggested as a quote cost; prices, rates and measurements remain planning notes.
How it works
Overhead recovery per hour = monthly overhead ÷ billable hours. Optional markup multiplies that rate by (1 + markup ÷ 100).
- This covers overhead only. Owner pay, direct labor and materials are separate.
- An hourly rate is a planning result. Multiply by the actual job hours before adding a cost to a quote.
Use this in your project
Continue with the next measurement or cost, then keep the assumptions with your quote.
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