Equipment Rate Builder

PILLAR 3LIVE

Know your true cost per billable hour for every piece of equipment. Ownership + operating + depreciation.

Equipment Manager
Manage multiple pieces of equipment. Click a profile on the left to load it instantly into the calculator below.
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Equipment Identity
Asset identifiers for this machine. Meter hours is the lifetime/odometer reading — not this year's usage.

% of job time this equipment is actually running. Below 100% raises the cost per billable hour — idle time still costs money, spread across fewer productive hours.

Gallons this machine burns in an hour of work — from the manufacturer's spec sheet. PMZ does not look it up: no free source covers every machine ever built, and a number we guessed at would price your fuel. Leave it empty until you have the sheet in front of you; an empty burn rate keeps whatever fuel figure this machine already carries, and nothing is inferred from it.

Green is diesel, red is gas — the pump handles. The price for each is set once, in Company Setup.

Based on your 2-year P&L review — the hours this machine needs to run annually to recover all costs.

No quote store to read.

No work-order store to read.

Depreciation
Define the service life and book values. Depreciation is calculated automatically.

Approx. 8 years of useful life

$
$
Depreciation (Total over life)
$0.00
Annualized
$0.00 / yr
Ownership Cost
Annual fixed costs of owning the equipment, regardless of hours worked.
CategoryCost ($ / yr)Per Unit ($/hr)
Insurance
$
$0.00
Tax / License
$
$0.00
Interest (Financing)
$
$0.00
Misc (Storage, Transport)
$
$0.00
Other Ownership
$
$0.00
Total Ownership$0.00$0.00
Operating Cost
Variable costs that scale with usage. Enter expected annual spend in each category.
CategoryCost ($ / yr)Per Unit ($/hr)
Maintenance & Repairs
$
$0.00
Fuel / Energy
$0.00
$0.00
Wear Items
e.g. Tracks, Tires, Teeth…
$
$0.00
Total Operating$0.00$0.00

Fuel cost is not yet calculated. This machine is holding the figure it was typed with and keeps it until you say how fast it drinks. Enter this machine's burn rate in gallons per hour. Go to Burn Rate, above

LIVE RESULTS
TOTAL COST PER UNIT
$0.00

This is the accurate break-even cost per billable hour based on budgeted hours.

Depreciation$0.00/hr
+ Ownership Cost$0.00/hr
+ Operating Cost$0.00/hr
Total Cost per Unit$0.00

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