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Calculate rates for any equipment or service
Calculate budgeted hourly rates for any printing and packaging equipment or service.
Gain insight into your true costs
Get a detailed breakdown of every cost component that composes your hourly rates.
Works with any estimating software
Provides budgeted hourly rates (BHRs) required by any estimating & costing MIS/ERP software.
Haven't updated your rates in a while?
Read this if you haven't updated your rates in the last 6-12 months.
Account for all your expenses
Accounts for and recovers all of your sales, administrative, factory, labor, and other expenses.
Account for all your employee
Accounts for and recovers all of your employee wages, benefits and taxes.
Fast and easy
No accounting knowledge needed. Update your budgeted hourly rates in just minutes!
Benchmark against other companies
Benchmark your labor, factory, and overhead costs and BHRs against other companies.
AI-driven analysis of your costs and BHRs
AI analysis of your costs and budgeted hourly rates with in clear, actionable insights.
Increase Good Sales, Eliminate Bad Sales
Win more orders with higher profit and contribution margins.
Built-in industry "Blue Book" rates study
Includes cost and rates studies for thousands of equipment and services for comparisons.
Import your data
Effortlessly import your spreadsheets, income statements, budgets, and other data.
Find the best pricing strategy
Create various cost and material markups and pricing strategies using your budget.
Project your profitability
Create income statement based on your budget with projected profit margins and ratios.
Create multiple sets of rates
Manage rates and costs for multiple companies, divisions, locations, or what-if scenerios.
Satisfaction guarantee or your money back!
If you're not happy within the first 30 days, for any reason, we'll refund all of your money.
FREE expert consulting support
You receive support from a real live Profectus industry business consultant, for any reason.
Makes Spreadsheets Obsolete
Cost Rates Advisor is considerably easier, faster, and more reliable than spreadsheets.
Secure, Protected, and Confidential
Profectus employs strict security policies to your account and data.
Works anywhere you do 24/7/365
Cost Rates Advisor runs in the cloud. Use it anywhere with a browser and internet.
Frequently Asked Questions
The answers to common questions about budgeted hourly rates and Cost Rates Advisor.
Plans & Pricing
Budgeted hourly rates, cost analysis, and benchmarking software for printing and packaging businesses.

Forecast Future Profitability From Your Budget.

The Income Statement Projections feature automatically projects future sales, factory costs, payroll, gross profit, SG&A expenses, operating income, net income, and key financial ratios based on your operational budgets and costing data.

Designed to bridge the gap between budgeting and overall financial performance by allowing you to reconcile your budgets against your financial structure to ensure all costs have been properly accounted for.
  • Create projected Income Statements based on your CRA budgets and budgeted hourly rates
  • Automatically project sales, payroll, overhead, gross profit, and net income
  • Reconcile operational budgets against your financial structure
  • Identify hidden, overlooked, duplicated, or under-budgeted costs
  • Validate that all costs have been properly included in your budgeted hourly rates
  • Analyze projected profitability and financial performance before the year begins
  • Improve budgeting accuracy and financial planning
  • Make smarter pricing and operational decisions
The result is greater confidence in your budgets, estimates, markups, pricing, profitability, and future financial performance.
See how your BHRs are impacting profitability
Compare your printing packaging apparel costs and BHRs
Easy to use and
loaded with powerful features!

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Profectus, Inc. · Sarasota, Florida · United States · Phone: 1-888-868-8662
Business management consultants specializing in the printing & packaging industry since 1993.
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