# Architect hourly billing rate calculator

Calculate your firm multipliers and project role hourly billing rate.

### Direct labor cost

Annual cost of employee compensation that can be billed directly to projects.

Total Direct Labor Cost

### $0

Direct Labor Multiplier

1.00

### Overhead costs

Overhead labor cost

Annual cost of employee compensation that **cannot be billed** directly to projects (e.g. admin or marketing staff, etc.)

Overhead expenses

Annual cost of expenses that **cannot be reimbursed** from projects (rent, utilities, software, etc.)

Total overhead cost

Total of overhead labor cost plus overhead expenses

### $0

Overhead multiplier

Needed to match total overhead cost

0

Break-even multiplier

Direct labor multiplier plus overhead multiplier

0

### Profit target

Percent (%) of Net Revenue Dollars remaining after all (operational and non-operational) expenses.

Net profit multiplier

Needed to cover Target Net Profit

0

Net multiplier

Direct labor multiplier plus overhead multiplier plus net profit multiplier

0

### Project role hourly billing rate

Project role

Typical role in a project such as Project Manager, Project Architect, Designer etc.

Annual salary

Project role annual salary

Salaried rate

Annual Salary divided by 2087 (average work hours in a year.) This is the hourly rate that you're paying your employee.

### $0

### / hour

Project role billing rate

Net Multiplier x Hourly Rate. This is the hourly billing rate you should be billing to your client to make a profit.

### $0

### / hour

Monograph customer: you can input this Billing Rate under the Teams tab inside Settings. [Learn more here.](https://support.monograph.com/en/articles/1972125-setting-billable-rates) [Send via email](https://monograph.com/architect-hourly-billing-rate-calculator#)

Multiplier calculator

Direct labor multiplier

1.00

Overhead multiplier

0

Break-even multiplier

0

Profit multiplier

0

Net multiplier

0