# Billable ratio

A term used when buying handyman.

The share of a paid technician day that reaches an invoice, after drive time and parts runs.

A handyman business pays for eight hours and bills five, and the gap is where the trade's thin margins come from. It is also the one thing a new owner can genuinely improve, through routing, stocked vans, and a dispatcher who groups jobs by neighborhood. Ask for billed hours against payroll hours by technician for a full year, and treat any answer given as a percentage without the underlying hours as an estimate.

Part of: Buying a Handyman Business (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-handyman-business)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-handyman-business/terms/billable-ratio
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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