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Tradespeople & technicians

Hourly rate calculator for tradespeople and technicians

Set your figures and the result updates as you type. Nothing is sent, nothing is stored: it all happens in your browser.

Your figures

€ net per month, in your pocket
% — around 45% for a French sole trader on the standard regime
€ per year — vehicle, insurance, premises, tools, accounting, phone and internet
days — holiday and public holidays deducted
hours, on a typical day
% — quotes, travel, admin, chasing payment
% — surprises, jobs that overrun, investment
€ per hour
Your break-even hourly rate
41 €
per hour, before margin

What it comes to

Genuinely billable hours per year 1 232 h
Your hourly cost
Below this, you are working at a loss.
41 € / h
Recommended hourly rate, margin included 45 € / h
Against what you charge today
You are breaking even

Your current rate matches your recommended rate almost exactly. You cover your costs and your margin, with no extra cushion.

≈ 0 € / h ≈ 0 € / an

The figure almost everyone underestimates

The share of non-billable time is the number most often wrong. Quotes written in the evening, trips between jobs, chasing payment, bookkeeping: that time is genuinely worked, it appears on no invoice, and it is paid for by the hours that do get billed.

Going from 20% to 30% non-billable time raises your break-even rate by more than 14%, at identical costs. That is often where the difference sits between a decent year and a wasted one. Time an ordinary week before filling this field: the real figure surprises people.

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This calculator was coded in a morning

A tool plugged into your price list, your jobs and your invoices follows exactly the same logic: a few rules, your figures, a readable result. Only more useful, because it works on your data rather than on averages. The first call is free.

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