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Estimating Calculators

CLIPAU PRICING CALCULATOR

Company Cost Per Minute Calculator

Calculate what it costs your company every minute a crew is working on a customer’s property. Use the final number in your CLIPAU app settings as your estimated company break-even cost per minute.

1

Build Your Typical Crew

Enter the number of employees working together on one customer’s property and their average hourly wage.

Enter the number of employees working together on one property. Do not combine employees from separate crews.
Use the average hourly wage when employees on the crew earn different amounts.
Combined Crew Wages Employees on one crew multiplied by their average hourly wage.
$75.00/hour
2

Add Payroll Burden

Payroll burden accounts for employer-paid expenses beyond the employee’s hourly wage.

Payroll burden may include employer payroll taxes, workers’ compensation, insurance, paid time off, benefits, and other employee-related costs. When unsure, use the recommended 20% estimate.

3

Enter Monthly Business Overhead

Open each category and enter your average monthly expenses. Leave any expense that does not apply blank.

Vehicles & Travel Vehicle payments, fuel, maintenance, and transportation. $0.00
Payments, registration, repairs, and maintenance.
Gas and other recurring transportation expenses.
Business Operations Insurance, communication, software, office, and storage. $0.00
Liability, vehicle, equipment, and property coverage.
Phones, internet, apps, subscriptions, and software.
Rent, warehouse, storage, utilities, and supplies.
Equipment payments, replacements, repairs, and supplies.
Sales & Marketing Advertising, websites, leads, and sales-related expenses. $0.00
Digital ads, printed materials, mailers, and sponsorships.
Website hosting, lead services, CRM, and sales tools.
Additional Expenses Other recurring company expenses not included above. $0.00
Accounting, legal, bookkeeping, and consulting.
Any additional recurring company overhead.
Total Monthly Overhead Your combined recurring monthly business expenses.
$0.00
4

Estimate Your Productive Season

Select the length of your installation and takedown season and the number of separate crews that can work at the same time.

Count separate crews working on different properties at the same time. For example, two crews with three employees each means three employees in Step 1 and two active crews here.
Example

Two separate crews with three employees on each crew:

3 Employees per crew 2 Active crews

The calculator assumes 20 productive workdays per active month and seven productive hours per workday. These estimates are designed for companies that do not yet have enough historical data to know their exact productive hours.

Loaded Crew Cost Per Hour $90.00

Combined wages for one crew plus the selected payroll burden.

Crew Payroll Per Minute $1.50

What the employees on one typical crew cost each working minute.

Overhead Per Crew Minute $0.00

The company overhead allocated to each productive crew minute.

Enter This Number Into Your App Settings $1.50

This is your estimated company break-even cost for every minute one typical crew is working on a customer’s property.

Crew Payroll $1.50 Per minute
Company Overhead $0.00 Per crew minute
Company Cost $1.50 Per minute
See How This Number Is Calculated

The final company cost per minute combines two separate costs:

  1. Crew payroll: The average hourly wage multiplied by the number of employees on one typical crew, plus the selected payroll burden.
  2. Company overhead: Twelve months of estimated business overhead divided across the productive crew minutes available during the selected season.

When multiple separate crews work at the same time, they share the company’s overhead. This is why the number of active crews affects overhead per minute but does not change the payroll cost of one typical crew.

The default operating assumptions are 20 productive days per active month and seven productive hours per day.

Important: This is an estimated break-even operating cost, not a selling price. Profit, product costs, equipment rentals, project-specific expenses, sales commissions, taxes, and other job costs may need to be added separately.

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Your total break even will be a combination of the labor only and all expenses calculators below.

 

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