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Equipment Hourly Cost Calculator

Allocate equipment ownership and operating costs across your annual productive hours.

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01 / Enter

These are editable examples, not recommended rates. Enter your own numbers.

Calculator inputs

Example purchase; supply your own equipment cost.

Expected value at end of useful life; no more than purchase price.

Positive economic life; not a tax-depreciation rule.

Exclude depreciation and separately entered maintenance.

Zero makes hourly allocation undefined.

Your fuel or energy and other variable costs.

Exclude costs already in fixed or hourly operating costs.

Your result

02 / Understand

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Currency totals round to cents. Sub-dollar unit rates use extra precision; very small rates use scientific notation. Calculations retain unrounded values.

What this means

Ownership cost includes straight-line value consumption and annual fixed expenses. Operating cost adds annual maintenance and variable cost per productive hour.

Worked example

$10,000 purchase, $1,000 residual, five-year life and $200 annual fixed costs give $1,800 value consumption and $2,000 ownership/year. At 1,000 productive hours, $500 maintenance and $3/hour variable cost, combined cost is $5.50/hour.

How the math works

Annual value consumption = (purchase−residual)/life. Ownership = value consumption + annual fixed costs. Hourly ownership = ownership/utilization. Hourly operating = variable cost + annual maintenance/utilization. Combined = both hourly components.

About this estimate

Economic straight-line allocation with constant annual use; not tax depreciation, loan amortization or cash flow. Productive hours, not every hour owned, are the denominator. Zero use leaves hourly amounts undefined.

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Formula v1.0.0 · Reviewed · Tool ID: equipment-hourly-cost