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On-Call Pay Cost Calculator
The rotation looks cheap on paper: one flat figure per week. Then the phone rings at two in the morning, a technician drives out, and dispatch spends the next half hour reshuffling the board. Put in your flat pay, call-out counts, response pay, and office time. You see what one on-call week really costs, per response hour and per year.
Before you start
What you will need. Flat on-call pay per week, After-hours call-outs in a typical week, Response hours per call-out, Response pay per hour
The rotation week
What a response hour pays
Advanced options
What one on-call week costs
Where the weekly cost goes
The method
What the rotation really costs
Most shops budget on-call as the flat weekly figure and stop there. The week does not stop there. Every call-out adds response hours at whatever your payroll pays for them, and every after-hours phone call adds dispatch and office time the next morning. This calculator adds the three lines up and states the week, the year, and the all-in cost of a single response hour.
How this is calculated
What one on-call week costs
The flat weekly pay. Then call-outs times response hours times the response rate times your multiplier. Then call-outs times the office minutes at your office rate. At the starter figures that is $50 plus $116 plus $30, about $196 a week.
Cost per response hour, all-in
The weekly cost divided by the response hours in it. At the starter figures each response hour costs about $49 once the flat pay and the office time ride along. That is well above the hourly rate on its own. Set that figure next to what an after-hours call bills and the rotation stops being a rounding error.
Flat pay versus the real cost
At the starter figures the flat weekly figure is about a quarter of the true weekly cost. The other three quarters live in response hours and office time. A rotation priced only on the flat line looks cheap right up until the season turns.
Carry this into the decision
On-call is one line in the pay plan. Price the whole plan.
The Tech Pay Plan and Margin Workbook models base, spiffs, commission, and on-call pay side by side across up to three plans, prices each one against billed-hour economics, and shows the raise breakeven, in one license.
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This tool estimates from the figures you enter. It is general information rather than legal, tax, or accounting advice, so check the result against your own records before you rely on it.