What would you like to do?
Work out the true cost of your team and the overhead rate to plug into Simpro — the Platinum Consultants way.
Overhead build-up
Key figures
Labour rate averages (for Simpro labour rates)
| Labour Type | # Staff | Avg 1.0× | Avg 1.5× | Avg 2.0× |
|---|
Where each charged hour goes (average per labour type)
Charge-out rate advisor (cost + overhead → suggested sell rate)
Per-employee cost
| Name | Position | Labour Type | Pay Rate/hr | Employment Cost/hr | Overhead/hr | Total Cost/hr | Annual Salary | Workable Hrs |
|---|
Snapshots
Save a moment-in-time copy of your numbers — before a pay rise, at end of financial year, whatever — then compare any two to see exactly what moved.
📸 Save where you're at
Your rate over time (from your snapshots)
Your snapshots
Compare
Employees — raw data entry
The full spreadsheet-style grid. Percentages are entered as whole numbers (e.g. 9.5 for 9.5%). Edits save automatically as you go — tidy the columns with ⚙ Columns.
Cost inclusion toggles (choose which paid-but-not-worked time gets priced into each person's employment cost $/hr — hover the ? on each one)
Overhead costs & asset replacement
The running costs of the business and the assets you set aside money to replace — this is the pool your overhead rate is built from.
P&L costs to remove (things already counted elsewhere — e.g. field wages, super)
| Item | Qty | Cost to remove | Applied % | Actual $ |
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P&L costs to add (overheads not yet in the P&L total — pushes overhead up)
| Item | Qty | Cost to add | Applied % | Actual $ |
|---|
Asset replacement
Money set aside each year to replace gear. Annual $ = Qty × Replace cost ÷ Years × Applied %. Group items under headings like Vehicles or Tools & Equipment.
Guided data collection
A step-by-step way to gather everything from a customer, in plain language. Answers save into the same database as the grid.
Import / Export
Import employees from CSV
Upload a CSV of employee data. Download the template first to see the exact columns. Percentages in the CSV are fractions (0.095 = 9.5%) — the template shows the format.
Export
Simpro import preview (office-admin staff export as $0 — their salary is already in the overhead pool)
| Name | Position | Pay Rate | Employment Costs | Overhead |
|---|
Simpro 🔌
Connect your Simpro instance to pull your team in, and push the calculated Pay Rate, Employment Costs and Overhead back — plus your company default overhead rate.
Account ⚙️
Your details, password and subscription — all in one place.
Platinum Apps ▦
One login, one Simpro connection — every app. Pick where you're headed.
Prebuild Labour Rate Updater 🔧
Roll a new labour rate across your Simpro standard-price prebuilds in one hit — with a full backup, read-back verification and one-click undo. Set-price prebuilds are never touched.
Takeoff Labour Rate Updater 📐
Roll your current labour rates across every takeoff template in one hit — synced to your setup rates or set by hand, verified line-by-line, with a full backup and one-click undo.
Catalogue Archiver 🧹
Audit your whole Simpro catalogue against real usage — jobs, quotes, orders and prebuilds — then archive the dead weight in one safe, fully-reversible sweep. Prebuild items are always protected.
Prebuild Archiver 🧹
Find the prebuilds nobody has used in years and archive them in one safe, fully-reversible sweep — with a complete audit trail and undo.
Xero 🧾
Connect Xero to pull your Profit & Loss total straight into the Overhead Costs step — no more typing the big number in by hand.
What-if planner 💡
Play with your team and costs without touching your real data. Add hypothetical hires or extra overhead and watch your company overhead rate move.
Benchmark 📈
See how your overhead stacks up against similar businesses — anonymously. Share your own numbers to sharpen the comparison for everyone.
Book a consultant
Get an expert set of eyes on your overheads — or all your Simpro questions, optimisation and training sorted in one session.