Rate Analysis Calculator
Pick a work item, enter how much of it you are building, and the calculator lists every material, labour and plant quantity it needs. Add your own prices and it builds up the cost the way an estimator’s rate analysis sheet does: base cost, the item’s charges, the grand total and the rate per m³, m², cft or sq ft.
Rate Analysis Calculator
Planning aid, not a structural design. Coefficients follow the InsightHub estimating toolkit sheets; check them against your local schedule of rates before pricing a contract.
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Basis: Typical value from the InsightHub estimating toolkit (RCC-Rate-Analysis-Qty-bqqmfc.xlsx). Adjust to your local practice.
Basis: Typical value from the InsightHub estimating toolkit (RCC-Rate-Analysis-Qty-bqqmfc.xlsx). Adjust to your local practice.
Basis: Typical value from the InsightHub estimating toolkit (RCC-Rate-Analysis-Qty-bqqmfc.xlsx). Adjust to your local practice.
Basis: Typical value from the InsightHub estimating toolkit (RCC-Rate-Analysis-Qty-bqqmfc.xlsx). Adjust to your local practice.
Basis: Typical value from the InsightHub estimating toolkit (RCC-Rate-Analysis-Qty-bqqmfc.xlsx). Adjust to your local practice.
Basis: Typical value from the InsightHub estimating toolkit (RCC-Rate-Analysis-Qty-bqqmfc.xlsx). Adjust to your local practice.
Basis: Typical value from the InsightHub estimating toolkit (RCC-Rate-Analysis-Qty-bqqmfc.xlsx). Adjust to your local practice.
Basis: Typical value from the InsightHub estimating toolkit (RCC-Rate-Analysis-Qty-bqqmfc.xlsx). Adjust to your local practice.
- Quantity of work
- 1.00 m³
- Priced materials and labour
- Add prices to see the cost
- Grand total (your currency)
- Add prices to see the cost
- Rate per unit of work
- Add prices to see the cost
RCC beam: resource quantities for 1.00 m³. Enter prices to see the cost.
Quantities for 1.00 m³ of rcc beam
- Cement: 7 bags
- Sand: 15.54 cft
- Coarse aggregate: 31.07 cft
- Steel: 157.00 kg
- Shuttering: 0.00 m²
- Binding wire: 1.57 kg
- Mason: 0.24 days
- Labour: 3.40 days
- Water carrier: 3.40 days
- Bar bender: 3.40 days
- Mixer operator: 3.40 days
- Vibrator operator: 3.40 days
How this was calculated
- Resource quantity = work quantity × the sheet coefficient (concrete: dry volume × mix part ÷ mix total)
- Base = Σ quantity × your price, over the lines you priced
- Grand total = base + the item’s charges (water, equipment, mixer, contingencies, profit) as on its sheet
- Rate = grand total ÷ work quantity
- Cement = ⌈1.54 m³ × 1/7 × 1440 ÷ 50⌉ = 7 bags
- Sand = 1.54 m³ × 2/7 × 35.31 = 15.54 cft
- Coarse aggregate = 1.54 m³ × 4/7 × 35.31 = 31.07 cft
- Steel = 2% × 1 m³ × 7850 = 157.00 kg
- Shuttering = as entered = 0.00 m²
- Binding wire = 157 kg × 1% = 1.57 kg
- Mason = 0.24 × 1 m³ = 0.24 days
- Labour = 3.4 × 1 m³ = 3.40 days
- Water carrier = 3.4 × 1 m³ = 3.40 days
- Bar bender = 3.4 × 1 m³ = 3.40 days
- Mixer operator = 3.4 × 1 m³ = 3.40 days
- Vibrator operator = 3.4 × 1 m³ = 3.40 days
How to use the rate analysis calculator
Choose the work item: RCC beam, slab or column, RCC isolated footing, PCC, concrete, cement plaster, white wash with putty and paint, site clearing, mechanical excavation, backfilling at foundation level or soil filling in a plot. Only the fields that item needs are shown. Enter the quantity of work in the item’s unit, and the mix ratio, steel percentage or shuttering area where the item asks for them.
The quantities appear straight away. To get a cost, type your local price next to each resource: cement per bag, sand and aggregate per cft, steel per kg, each labour category per day, machinery per day, trucks and tractors per trip. Any line you leave blank is listed as not priced and left out of the total, so you can price only the materials, only the labour, or everything.
What you need
The quantity of work from your drawings or a takeoff: concrete volume in m³ for RCC, PCC and footings, wall area for plaster, area in sq ft for painting, plot area for site clearing, and excavation volume with the deductions for backfilling. For concrete work you also need the nominal mix (for example 1:2:4) and, for RCC, the steel as a percentage of the concrete volume and the shuttering area.
For the cost you need current prices from your supplier and labour contractor. The calculator ships no prices: rates vary too much by city and season to guess.
Accuracy and the coefficients used
Quantities and build-ups follow the InsightHub estimating toolkit sheets: a 1.54 dry volume factor for concrete and 1.33 for plaster mortar, cement at 1440 kg/m³ in 50 kg bags rounded up to whole bags, 35.31 cft per m³, steel at 7850 kg/m³ with binding wire at 1% of the steel, and labour days per m³ or m² as on each sheet. Every coefficient and percentage is shown under Assumptions and can be changed to match your local schedule of rates.
The charges differ by item, as on the sheets. RCC beam, slab and column add water 1.5%, mixer and transport 7.5%, contingencies 3% and profit 10%, each on the base cost. Most other items add equipment, then contractor profit on the subtotal. Site clearing adds water 1% then 15% profit and overheads; excavation adds 3% of the machinery cost for sundries, then 15%. This is a planning aid for estimating, not a structural design.
Next steps
Carry the rate per unit into a bill of quantities: the BOQ Calculator multiplies each item’s quantity by its rate. For brick walls, use the Brickwork Calculator, which works out bricks and mortar from the wall volume. The Concrete Mix Calculator gives cement, sand and aggregate for any volume and mix on its own, and the India Construction Cost Estimator gives a whole-house budget.
Frequently asked questions
What is rate analysis in construction?
Rate analysis works out the cost of one unit of a work item, such as 1 m³ of RCC or 1 m² of plaster. It lists the materials, labour and plant the unit needs, prices them, and adds charges such as water, equipment, contingencies and the contractor’s profit. The result is the rate you put against that item in a bill of quantities.
How many cement bags are in 1 m³ of RCC 1:2:4?
With the 1.54 dry volume factor, 1 m³ of 1:2:4 concrete needs 1.54 × 1/7 × 1440 ÷ 50 = 6.34 bags, which the sheet rounds up to 7 whole bags.
Why are some lines shown as not priced?
Each resource has its own price field, and empty means you have not priced it. Those lines are listed separately and left out of the base cost, so the total covers only what you priced. Fill them in to include them.
Why do the charges differ between items?
Each toolkit sheet uses its own build-up. The RCC sheets strike every charge on the base cost, while the PCC, footing, plaster and fill sheets add equipment first and then profit on the subtotal. The calculator reproduces each sheet, and you can change every percentage under Assumptions.
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