Calculating your real hourly rate

If you’ve heard Andrew Charlton from BACK talking about calculating your true hourly rates and return on investment on IT projects, here are the work sheets for you to use.

Calculating your Worth

Aspirational Income                        £

How many weeks a year can you work?

How many days a week can you work?

How many business hours a day can you work?

Multiply these together to give the theoretical maximum billable hours

What proportion of your day is taken up doing non-billable work?            ______ %

Multiply these together to get actual billable hours                                          ______ per annum

Take your aspirational income and multiply by 3 to reflect overheads, profit and salary             £        ______ required income

Divide by actual billable hours                                                                          £        ______ actual billable rate

Evaluation of Return on Investments

Daily saving in efficiencies and reclaimed billable hours

Multiply by weeks per year worked

Multiply by days per week work

Multiply by target billable rate per hour

Multiply by number of staff

Sub-Total

Subtract Cost of Project

Total Return on Investment in Year 1