Day rate calculator
What to invoice for a week on site, per man per day — with part days rounded the way they should be. Free, nothing to sign up for.
Anything up to half a day counts as half. Most site work runs this way.
- Days billed, each
- 3.5
- People
- 2
- To invoice (net)
- £1,680.00
Round each day up, then add — not the other way round
Totalling the hours for a week and rounding once looks tidier and quietly gives work away. On a full week it often makes no difference at all — which is exactly why it goes unnoticed. It shows up on short turnouts: three separate two-hour visits are a half day each, so one and a half days billed. Add the six hours up first and it rounds to one. Half a day, gone, on a half-day setting.
Each turnout is a day somebody could not be anywhere else. The calculator shows both numbers so the difference is visible rather than asserted.
A rate nobody has set is unknown, not zero
Billing a man’s week at nothing is a bigger mistake than billing it at the wrong figure, because nobody queries a line that is not there. If a rate has not been agreed for a job or a person, the invoice should refuse to be raised rather than quietly total zero.
Every day-rate line is labour
Which matters on a CIS invoice: a day of somebody’s time cannot be materials, so the whole of it is deductible labour. If you subcontract, work the CIS out on the full day-rate total.
A note on what this is
A guide, not advice, and it cannot know everything about your arrangement. Check anything that matters with your accountant.
Built by TaskMyJob, which does this on every invoice it raises. More free reading: billing for the days workedCIS on a subcontractor invoiceall the guides.