Set your charge-out rates and labour on-costs
On this page
Two sides feed everything money: what you charge (turnover) and what it costs you (for margin). Both live on the owner-only Rates tab, which shows the whole pricing picture on one page.
Charge-out rates
Each machine has a charge-out rate (what dockets bill at, per hour with an operator) and a dry-hire day rate. A job can override the machine rate, so one job can price differently to your standard book. These drive both your Xero invoices and the turnover side of Cost & profit.
Labour
Each crew member has a base rate — their gross hourly wage — set on their card in Team or in the same list on Rates. On top of that sit your company on-cost percentages: super, payroll tax, WorkCover and leave loading. Lintelo loads those onto the base rate to get the true cost per worked hour, which is the cost side of every job’s margin.
- Casual
- Base × on-costs, plus any vehicle allowance. Their casual loading is already in the base rate you enter.
- Full-time
- Base × leave loading × on-costs — the paid leave they don’t docket, spread across the hours they do.
- Contractor
- Base only. They invoice with an ABN, so no super, payroll tax or leave is loaded.
Fuel and hired-in plant
The same page holds your diesel price per litre, which turns machine fuel burn into a dollar cost, and your hired-in plant insurance as an annual figure, which is split across your hired machines into an hourly cost.