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Cited calculators for engineering, manufacturing, quality, project, cloud and finance professionals.

Work out the hourly rate to charge a client so that target margin is met after overhead and non-billable time.

Find the true hourly cost of an employee once benefits, payroll cost and overhead are included.

Size a software application from its data and transaction functions before estimating effort or cost.

Estimate development effort, schedule and average team size for a software project of a known size.

Express cloud spend as a cost per customer, per transaction or per other business unit.

Set the rate used to apply manufacturing overhead to jobs for the coming period.

Find the pace of production needed to meet customer demand.

Measure how much of planned production time is truly productive.

Express a defect rate on a scale that can be compared across processes of different complexity.

Judge whether a process fits inside its specification limits and whether it is centred.

Size a pump and estimate the electrical power it will draw at a given duty point.

Measure how much value the project has earned for each unit of cost spent.

Measure how much of the planned work the project has actually completed.

Forecast the total cost of the project from performance so far.

Find the sales volume at which total revenue covers total cost.

See how much each sale contributes towards fixed costs and profit.

Price a monthly retainer and the rate for hours beyond it.

Price a per-device or per-user service from its cost to serve.

Work out the monthly cost of running a managed service, per unit served.

Price a support contract from ticket volume and handling time.

Cost the coverage a service level agreement promises.

Find the blended hourly cost of a junior, mid and senior delivery mix.

Work out what each customer, order or account costs to serve.

Measure how many hours each delivered function point actually took.

Express what a delivery cost in money per unit of functional size.

Turn a function point count into effort using your own delivery rate.

Cost a COCOMO II effort estimate at your own person-month cost.

Estimate calendar time with the published COCOMO II schedule equation.

Size software in thousands of source lines, counted or converted.

Find the average team size an effort and schedule imply.

Cost a build including tools, overhead and a contingency reserve.

Turn effort into a schedule, by the published model or by your staffing.

Estimate a year of maintenance from how much of the system changes.

Work out what fixing a set of defects costs to fix, retest and release.

Value technical debt as remediation cost and annual carrying cost.

Build a total project cost from labour, materials, travel, overhead and contingency.

One hourly rate for a mixed team, weighted by hours.

Total annual employer cost of an employee, and the cost per paid hour.

Work back from a client bill rate to the pay rate, with margin and markup kept apart.

Scheduled hours less leave, holidays and non-billable work.

Billable hours as a share of available hours.

How much of the standard value of work was actually billed.

Revenue per hour worked, not just per hour billed.

Premium rate and cost for work outside standard hours.

Cost of a standby rota and the call-outs that come with it.

Turn a loaded hourly cost into a published rate, and see the margin after discount.

Add up what the people on a project cost, role by role.

See what share of a project's revenue survives its delivery cost.

See what a project leaves after direct, overhead and administrative cost.

Turn an estimated project cost into a fixed fee at your margin or markup.

Quote an hourly engagement with expenses and materials shown separately.

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