The Fully Loaded Cost Rate: Billable Hours, Overhead per Hour and Charge-Out Rates
This lesson is part of the course
In this lesson
You turn each person's salary cost and billable target into billable hours, spread the studio's overheads over those hours, calculate a fully loaded cost per billable hour and set a charge-out rate with a target margin.
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Lessons in this course
- The Gear Register: Straight-Line Depreciation, Book Value and a Replacement Fund Locked
- Buy or Rent? Yearly Cost of Owning, Break-Even Days and the Decision Locked
- Charging for Your Own Kit: A Day Fee That Recovers Depreciation, Insurance and Repairs Locked
- The Fully Loaded Cost Rate: Billable Hours, Overhead per Hour and Charge-Out Rates Locked
- Team Capacity: Booked Hours per Week, Load % and Over-Capacity Flags Locked
- Project Profitability: Hours Logged, Cost at Loaded Rates, Margin and the Realised Hourly Rate Locked
- Retainer Clients: Included Hours, Overage Billing, the Effective Rate and the Margin Locked
- The Studio Dashboard: Gross Margin, Break-Even Revenue, Margin of Safety and a Trend Chart Locked