Build the rate you should charge - up from your wage, super, overheads and margin - instead of guessing off someone else's.
Pre-filled with the Median employee hourly earnings - technicians and trades workers: $39/hr (ABS Employee earnings, August 2025, August 2025) - edit to your own.
Hours you can charge a customer for. The rest - quoting, travel, admin - is still paid from what you bill.
Vehicle, tools, insurance, phone, admin - everything you pay whether you're on a job or not.
If you pay yourself $39 an hour and charge clients $39, you're losing money on every job. Your wage is only one piece of the cost. Vehicle repayments, insurance, tools, phone, admin, and every hour spent quoting or travelling that you can't bill for - all of that has to come out of what you charge before you see any profit.
The wage figure is pre-filled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Employee earnings release (August 2025) - a median employee wage, not a charge-out rate - and super uses the ATO's 12% guarantee rate; both are just starting points you should edit to your own numbers.
figrd applies this build-up on every quote, using your actual running costs and billable hours, so the rate you charge always covers what the business needs.