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Billable Hours Calculator for Agencies

Calculate your team's billable revenue, utilization rate, and revenue leakage in seconds.

Enter your team's hours

Fill in your monthly hours, billing rate, and optional overhead to calculate revenue and utilization.

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Revenue Leakage

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AGENCY RATE utilization

What's a good utilization rate for agencies?

Utilization rate measures what percentage of your team's available time is spent on billable client work. Most healthy agencies target 65–75%.

75%+

Excellent

Your team is billing efficiently. Watch for burnout at sustained 80%+.

65–74%

Good

Healthy zone for most agencies. Leaves buffer for internal work and admin.

50–64%

Needs Improvement

Below average. You may have capacity you're not monetizing or too much non-billable overhead.

Below 50%

Low

Significant revenue is being lost to non-billable time. Review project scoping and time tracking practices.

How to calculate billable hours for your agency

Billable hours are the hours your team spends on client work that you can charge for. Tracking them accurately is the foundation of agency profitability.

The billable hours formula

Total Billable Revenue = Billable Hours × Average Hourly Rate. For example, if your team logs 110 billable hours in a month at $125/hr, your billable revenue is $13,750.

What is utilization rate?

Utilization rate measures what percentage of your team's total available hours are spent on billable work. Formula: Utilization Rate = (Billable Hours / Total Available Hours) × 100. A team member with 160 available hours who logs 112 billable hours has a 70% utilization rate, right in the healthy zone.

What is revenue leakage?

Revenue leakage is the potential revenue you're missing because of non-billable time. If your team has 160 available hours and only bills 110, that's 50 hours of unbilled capacity. At $125/hr, that's $6,250 in leakage every month, or $75,000 a year.

How to improve billable utilization

The fastest way to improve utilization is better time tracking and cleaner project scoping. When every deliverable is mapped to a task, and every task is tracked, non-billable time becomes visible, and you can act on it. Sagely's client portal keeps client work organized so nothing falls through the cracks.