Free sample report
This sample shows how ClaimDuke builds a bill rate from a base wage: percentage burdens, per-hour fixed costs, overhead recovery and the margin step that most rate sheets get wrong.
The sample is the complete report as a watermarked PDF, using illustrative figures, not real project data. Your own report is generated live from the numbers you enter and is not watermarked.
Five to ten minutes. The two figures people usually have to go and find are the SUTA rate notice and the overhead pool from the year-end financials.
Use productive hours rather than paid hours as the divisor. Dividing an annual overhead pool by 2,080 understates the rate, often by ten percent or more.
Nothing you enter is uploaded. The calculation and the parsing of any spreadsheet you import happens entirely in your own browser.
The build-up runs in one direction: base wage, then percentage burdens, then per-hour fixed costs, then overhead per productive hour, then margin. Each stage is shown as both a dollar figure and a percentage of base wage, because reviewers think in percentages and contracts are written in dollars.
The two questions asked most often are where the overhead pool came from and what the hours divisor is. Both are stated explicitly on the Methodology page rather than buried in a multiplier, which is the difference between a rate that gets accepted and one that gets reworked.
Contractors pricing change orders and extra work, claims consultants supporting a labour component of a larger claim and attorneys who need a burdened rate that will survive line-by-line examination.
Whichever you are, the arithmetic is free: run the calculator as many times as you like and pay only when you want the branded, citation-backed document assembled.
No. Every sample uses illustrative figures rather than real project or claimant data. The point is to show the layout, the level of detail and the methodology, so you can judge whether the finished report is what you need before you pay for one.
The sample is a watermarked PDF. A paid report is unwatermarked, carries your own logo and company details and comes as a live-formula Excel workbook and an editable Word document alongside the PDF.
Yes. The Excel workbook keeps working formulas rather than pasted values, so changing an input updates the totals. The Word document is a normal editable document.
Base Wage + (Wage × (Payroll Tax + Workers' Comp + PTO + Other)%) + Health + Tools.
Annual Overhead Pool ÷ Annual Company Billable Hours. The pool is company-wide, so the divisor must be company-wide billable hours rather than one employee's annual hours.
(Fully Burdened Rate + Overhead per Hour) ÷ (1 − Margin%). Dividing by (1 − margin) produces margin on the bill rate, not a markup on cost.
The sample PDF above shows the report. This is the Full Line-Item Breakdown sheet from the formatted Excel workbook a paid report also includes, rendered from an actual generated workbook rather than a mock-up. Every figure on it is a live formula reading from an Inputs tab, so changing an input recalculates the whole workbook.
The sample is a fixed, watermarked PDF. A paid report is generated live from your own figures and adds a formatted Excel workbook with working formulas, a matching Word document, an unwatermarked PDF and your own logo or letterhead. The monthly plan additionally includes a Scenario Comparison sheet for modelling conservative, likely and aggressive positions.
