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Offer pricing & margin

See what a discount leaves after your time, service costs and monthly bills.

Start with your own numbers. The figures below are examples, not industry averages. Amounts are in AUD. Use one consistent tax basis; these tools do not add or calculate GST or income tax.
What are you pricing?
Price & target

Margin means the amount remaining divided by the selling price. It is different from a mark-up on costs.

Unit: $.
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Your own planning target, not an industry benchmark. Unit: %.
Time & appointment costs

Include the whole job. Add travel time to preparation. Staff costs are for other people; your time is allowed for separately.

Unit: min.
Unit: min.
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Include applicable employment on-costs. Leave out staff already covered in monthly overheads. Unit: $.
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An allowance for your work before personal tax, not an award rate. Unit: $/hr.
Use your effective rate on the price entered. This is an example, not an IdleHours fee. Unit: %.
Unit: $.
Monthly overheads

Example bills only. Replace them with your own, and count each cost once. Use realistic hours spent on completed jobs, including their prep and clean-up, rather than all your opening hours.

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Across the same people and services these overheads support. Unit: hrs.

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What’s in this result

Includes $37.50 for your time, $1.70 in payment fees and $10.00 in other appointment costs.

Monthly overheads of $1,000.00 ÷ 100 hours = $10.00 per hour. This job uses 1.25 hours. At full price, $37.95 remains after these costs.

The target price includes your pay allowance and allocated overheads. The amount remaining is a planning estimate before any costs or tax you have not included.

Show the calculation

Discounted price = usual price × (1 − discount). Remaining = price − payment fees − appointment costs − your time allowance − allocated overhead. Target price = included costs ÷ (1 − fee rate − target margin), rounded up to the next cent. The maximum discount is rounded down to two decimal places.

For more on setting prices, see business.gov.au’s pricing guide.