Aftermarket, Field Service & Service Parts worked example

Technician Travel Cost at 92% recoverable travel share: a worked example

Push recoverable travel share up to 92% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. a field service manager needs to estimate travel cost for routes, regions, emergency calls, or contract support

The inputs for this scenario

  • Technician travel hours: 420 hr (unchanged)
  • Loaded travel labor rate: 72 $ / hr (unchanged)
  • Recoverable (billable) travel share: 92 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 80)
  • Fixed travel expenses: 9,600 $ (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Recoverable travel cost = travel hours × loaded travel cost rate × recoverable travel share) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 37,421 $ travel cost for technician travel cost, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 89.1 $ / hr for loaded travel cost rate.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 27,821 $ travel cost for recoverable travel cost.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 9,600 $ for fixed travel expenses.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where recoverable travel share sits at 80% and the headline result is 33,792 $ travel cost, this scenario comes in 10.74% above the baseline at 37,421 $ travel cost.
  • It computes total technician travel cost as recoverable travel labor (hours x loaded rate x billable share) plus fixed travel expenses. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • Technician travel cost: 37,421 $ travel cost (headline result)
  • Loaded travel cost rate: 89.1 $ / hr
  • Recoverable travel cost: 27,821 $ travel cost
  • Fixed travel expenses: 9,600 $

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Technician Travel Cost calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.