Skip to content
Docket

Electricians

Electrician hourly rate calculator

Certificates, test sheets, and time in the board are easy to leave off the rate. Start with the income you want for the year and the costs of the van, insurance, and tools, then lower the billable share for the hours nobody pays for.

The starting numbers are blanks, not a recommended electrician rate. Change them. This is not a rate card.

Example starting point. Change every figure. This is not a rate card, and it does not calculate tax or super.

1,136 billable hours a year. Costs are $13.20 of each of those hours.

$110.02 an hour

(Income + costs) ÷ billable hours. A day rate is this figure times the hours you call a day.

Billable hours are weeks times hours a week times the share you can charge for. The rate is income plus costs, divided by those hours. Change the blanks before you treat the figure as yours. Not a rate card.

Short answers

Should testing and a certificate be inside the hourly rate?

Either is fine if the quote says so. Some people keep an hourly rate for labour and add the certificate as its own line. The calculator only builds the hourly figure.

Does this include tax or super?

No. It splits the income you type, plus the costs you type, across the hours you can bill. Income tax and super are separate. This is not tax advice and not a rate card.

Why are billable hours less than the hours I work?

Quoting, driving, picking up parts, and admin are often unpaid. The share you can bill is the part a client is actually charged for.

Try Docket free

Five jobs a month. A quote and its invoice count as one. No account. The PDF uses ABN, GST and Australian dates.

Start a free quote