Auto Repair Labor Revenue &
Break-Even Rate Planner
Plan labor revenue from billed hours and your current labor rate, then calculate the rate and billed hours needed to cover the labor costs and overhead you enter.
Planning Period
Use the same period for billed hours, technician costs, and allocated overhead.
This is a shop-level labor planning tool. It compares labor revenue with the technician costs and shop overhead you assign to the same period. It does not include parts, sublet, sales tax, or other non-labor revenue.
Labor Revenue Assumptions
Enter the labor hours you expect to sell and the customer labor rate you plan to charge.
Customer labor hours expected to be sold in this period — not technician clock time.
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Rate charged per billed / sold labor hour.
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Used only to calculate an optional target labor rate.
Labor Costs for the Period
Enter your shop's own cost amounts for the same planning period.
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Base wages, salary, or technician payroll cost for this period.
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Employer taxes, benefits, insurance, or other payroll burden you want included.
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Other technician-related costs you want included in the labor calculation.
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The portion of rent, admin, utilities, software, and other shop overhead you choose to assign to labor for this period.
Break-even uses every cost entered above. Leave Allocated Shop Overhead at 0 only if you intentionally want a direct-labor-cost break-even view. Do not double count the same cost in more than one field.
How This Tool Calculates Break-Even
The formulas are fixed so saved plans use the same definitions.
Loaded Technician Cost
Wages + Payroll Burden + Other Direct Labor CostsFully Loaded Labor Cost
Loaded Technician Cost + Allocated Shop OverheadBreak-Even Labor Rate
Fully Loaded Labor Cost ÷ Planned Billed HoursProjected Labor Revenue
Planned Billed Hours × Current Labor RateProjected Labor Profit
Labor Revenue − Fully Loaded Labor CostTarget Labor Rate
(Fully Loaded Labor Cost + Target Labor Profit) ÷ Planned Billed HoursNo industry labor rate, wage, overhead percentage, billed-hour target, or profit target is preset. “Projected Labor Profit” is not whole-shop net profit; it only compares labor revenue with the labor costs and allocated overhead entered here.
Plan Notes
Optional context for staffing, seasonality, pricing changes, or overhead assumptions.
Tool Actions
No saved plan loaded.