{
  "slug": "jobsite-overhead-per-day",
  "title": "Jobsite Overhead Per Day Calculator",
  "heading": "Jobsite Overhead Per Day Calculator",
  "category": "financial",
  "url": "https://www.revenuelab.fyi/toolbox/jobsite-overhead-per-day",
  "summary": "Find your daily burn rate to price delay claims and acceleration decisions.",
  "description": "Knowing your jobsite overhead cost per calendar day is the single most useful number for pricing delay claims, evaluating acceleration decisions, and negotiating time extensions, because it converts every schedule day into a dollar figure both sides can argue about concretely instead of abstractly. This calculator sums your recurring daily-equivalent costs — superintendent and PM salary allocation, temp facilities, equipment standing by, insurance allocation, and small tools/consumables — into a single daily rate, then multiplies by any number of delay or acceleration days you want to model. This is the number contractors present in a time impact analysis when seeking extended general conditions compensation for an owner-caused delay, and it's the number you should check before agreeing to accelerate a schedule at your own cost to avoid an LD dispute.",
  "formula": "Daily overhead rate = Sum of all recurring jobsite costs converted to a daily-equivalent basis. Delay cost = Daily rate × Delay days.",
  "dateModified": "2026-09-30",
  "run_url": "https://www.revenuelab.fyi/api/public/calc?tool=jobsite-overhead-per-day",
  "inputs": [
    {
      "id": "superSalary",
      "label": "Super + PM salary allocation",
      "kind": "number",
      "hint": null,
      "default": 16000,
      "unit": "$/month",
      "min": 0,
      "max": null
    },
    {
      "id": "tempFacilities",
      "label": "Temp facilities & utilities",
      "kind": "number",
      "hint": null,
      "default": 3200,
      "unit": "$/month",
      "min": 0,
      "max": null
    },
    {
      "id": "equipmentStandby",
      "label": "Equipment standing by",
      "kind": "number",
      "hint": null,
      "default": 2800,
      "unit": "$/month",
      "min": 0,
      "max": null
    },
    {
      "id": "insuranceMonthly",
      "label": "Insurance allocation",
      "kind": "number",
      "hint": null,
      "default": 1400,
      "unit": "$/month",
      "min": 0,
      "max": null
    },
    {
      "id": "delayDays",
      "label": "Days to price (delay or acceleration)",
      "kind": "number",
      "hint": null,
      "default": 12,
      "unit": null,
      "min": 0,
      "max": null
    }
  ],
  "outputs": [
    {
      "id": "dailyRate",
      "label": "Jobsite overhead per calendar day",
      "format": "currency",
      "hint": null,
      "primary": true
    },
    {
      "id": "delayCost",
      "label": "Cost for the days entered",
      "format": "currency",
      "hint": null,
      "primary": false
    },
    {
      "id": "monthlyTotal",
      "label": "Total monthly overhead",
      "format": "currency",
      "hint": null,
      "primary": false
    },
    {
      "id": "weeklyRate",
      "label": "Overhead per week",
      "format": "currency",
      "hint": null,
      "primary": false
    }
  ],
  "worked_example": {
    "inputs": [
      "Super + PM salary allocation: 16000 $/month",
      "Temp facilities & utilities: 3200 $/month",
      "Equipment standing by: 2800 $/month",
      "Insurance allocation: 1400 $/month",
      "Days to price (delay or acceleration): 12"
    ],
    "outputs": [
      "Jobsite overhead per calendar day: $769.74",
      "Cost for the days entered: $9,236.84",
      "Total monthly overhead: $23,400.00",
      "Overhead per week: $5,388.16"
    ]
  },
  "how_to": {
    "title": "How to use this",
    "steps": [
      "Enter super + pm salary allocation ($/month).",
      "Enter temp facilities & utilities ($/month).",
      "Enter equipment standing by ($/month).",
      "Enter insurance allocation ($/month).",
      "Enter days to price (delay or acceleration).",
      "Read your jobsite overhead per calendar day on the right — it updates as you type.",
      "Hit Share to keep the scenario or send it to someone."
    ]
  },
  "scenarios": [
    {
      "name": "Conservative",
      "description": "Lower-end numbers — what if things land soft?",
      "values": {
        "superSalary": 9500,
        "tempFacilities": 1900,
        "equipmentStandby": 1700,
        "insuranceMonthly": 800,
        "delayDays": 7
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Typical",
      "description": "Defaults — the most common real-world setup.",
      "values": {
        "superSalary": 16000,
        "tempFacilities": 3200,
        "equipmentStandby": 2800,
        "insuranceMonthly": 1400,
        "delayDays": 12
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Ambitious",
      "description": "Higher-end numbers — what if things really pop?",
      "values": {
        "superSalary": 25500,
        "tempFacilities": 5100,
        "equipmentStandby": 4500,
        "insuranceMonthly": 2200,
        "delayDays": 19
      }
    }
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "Results are estimates before tax, fees, and inflation unless an input explicitly covers them.",
    "Rates are treated as fixed for the whole period — variable-rate products will drift from this projection.",
    "This is educational maths, not financial advice. Check anything contractual with the lender or your accountant."
  ],
  "faq": [
    {
      "q": "Why divide by 30.4 instead of 30 days to get a daily rate?",
      "a": "30.4 is the average number of days per month across a full year (365.25 ÷ 12), which avoids systematically overstating or understating the daily rate depending on which specific months a delay spans. Using a flat 30-day divisor introduces a small but consistent bias that adds up over a long delay claim."
    },
    {
      "q": "What costs get left out of a jobsite overhead per day claim that shouldn't be?",
      "a": "Contractors often forget extended warranty exposure (a longer schedule can push warranty start dates and coverage windows), home office overhead allocation under an Eichleay-type formula for unabsorbed overhead, and extended bond/insurance premiums tied to the longer duration. These are separate from direct jobsite costs but are legitimate components of a full delay damages claim."
    },
    {
      "q": "How is this different from general conditions percentage?",
      "a": "General conditions percentage is a bid-time budgeting tool expressing planned GC lump sum as a share of hard cost; jobsite overhead per day is a claims and decision-making tool converting your actual (or planned) GC burn into a daily rate for pricing specific delay or acceleration scenarios after the bid is set. They use the same underlying cost categories but serve different purposes at different project phases."
    },
    {
      "q": "Can I use this rate to justify accelerating a schedule instead of accepting a delay?",
      "a": "Yes — compare the cost of accelerating (overtime premiums, extra shifts, expedited material costs) against your daily overhead rate times the days you'd save. If acceleration costs less than the extended overhead plus any LD exposure for those same days, it's the better financial call, which is exactly the analysis owners expect to see in a constructive acceleration claim."
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "https://www.revenuelab.fyi/toolbox/general-conditions-percentage",
    "https://www.revenuelab.fyi/toolbox/liquidated-damages-exposure",
    "https://www.revenuelab.fyi/toolbox/weather-delay-days"
  ],
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "citation": "RevenueLab — Jobsite Overhead Per Day Calculator (https://www.revenuelab.fyi/toolbox/jobsite-overhead-per-day)"
}