How to Use This Tool
Account for delivery, sales and unpaid revision time in a fixed fee. Convert a fixed project fee into effective hourly and day rates after delivery, sales, administration and revision hours.
The decision this tool supports
A fixed fee can appear attractive when only delivery hours are counted and pre-sale or revision time disappears. This page keeps the decision bounded to effective day rate and the supporting outputs shown beside it. Fee to Day Rate does not import an account, infer a market rate, or silently substitute an industry average.
Inputs and units
The Fee to Day Rate calculation uses Project fee, Delivery hours, Sales and admin hours, Unpaid revision hours, Billable day length. Keep all money values in one currency and all time, distance, mass, energy or volume entries in the unit printed beside the field. Mixing Fee to Day Rate scopes can produce a plausible number with the wrong meaning.
- Project fee is entered in currency.
- Delivery hours is entered in hours.
- Sales and admin hours is entered in hours.
- Unpaid revision hours is entered in hours.
- Billable day length is entered in hours/day.
Formula and worked check
Total project hours = delivery + sales/admin + unpaid revisions; effective hourly rate = fee ÷ total hours; day rate multiplies by day length. $6,000 over 78 total hours equals $76.92 per hour, $576.92 per 7.5-hour day and 10.4 workdays. The Fee to Day Rate default is an executable known-answer case, not a benchmark or recommendation. Change one input and verify that the direction of effective day rate still matches the stated relationship.
How to interpret the result
Compare the effective day rate with a target that uses the same day length and includes the same overhead basis. The additional Fee to Day Rate outputs expose the denominator, comparison, capacity or reverse value needed to audit the primary result instead of presenting one unexplained number.
Assumptions
- The fee is net of any pass-through expenses.
- All unpaid project hours are represented.
- Day length is a comparison unit, not a schedule promise.
Save the Fee to Day Rate input values and date with any material decision. A later Fee to Day Rate rerun is reproducible only when the same assumptions and units are available.
Limitations and safety boundary
It excludes taxes, direct project expenses, payment delay, utilization between projects and benefits. Fee to Day Rate is an estimate and cannot replace a contract, local code, licensed professional, calibrated measurement, lender statement or platform report where one governs the decision.
Source and privacy
The Fee to Day Rate definition or rule was checked against U.S. Small Business Administration — Manage your finances on 2026-08-26. Recheck U.S. Small Business Administration — Manage your finances when a specification or policy behind Fee to Day Rate can change. Fee to Day Rate arithmetic runs in this browser tab; ecech does not receive the values through a calculation API.
Sources & assumptions
Tool Spec v2 · verified 2026-08-26. Platform rules and fees can change; the editable inputs remain authoritative for your account.
Official references
- U.S. Small Business Administration — Manage your finances (checked 2026-08-26)
Model assumptions
- The fee is net of any pass-through expenses.
- All unpaid project hours are represented.
- Day length is a comparison unit, not a schedule promise.
- It excludes taxes, direct project expenses, payment delay, utilization between projects and benefits.
