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Day rate

A fixed price for a full day’s labour instead of an hourly charge.

A day rate bills a set amount for a day on site rather than per hour. It’s simpler for the customer and for some jobs, but only works if the day rate genuinely reflects your true charge-out rate across the billable hours in that day.

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