Aftermarket, Field Service & Service Parts worked example

Technician Travel Cost at 58% recoverable travel share: a worked example

This worked example runs the technician travel cost numbers for a tougher week than the baseline: 58% recoverable travel share instead of the typical 80%. Estimate technician travel cost from travel hours or trips, loaded travel rate, billable share, and fixed travel expenses.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Technician travel hours: 420 hr (held at the documented default)
  • Loaded travel labor rate: 72 $ / hr (held at the documented default)
  • Recoverable (billable) travel share: 58 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 80)
  • Fixed travel expenses: 9,600 $ (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Recoverable travel cost = travel hours × loaded travel cost rate × recoverable travel share.
  • Technician travel cost works out to 27,139 $ travel cost at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Loaded travel cost rate works out to 64.62 $ / hr at these inputs.
  • Recoverable travel cost works out to 17,539 $ travel cost at these inputs.
  • Fixed travel expenses works out to 9,600 $ at these inputs.

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 19.69% below the baseline at 27,139 $ travel cost.
  • Use it when pricing a service contract, evaluating route-optimization savings, or analyzing the true cost-to-serve of a field-service region. A result at this level usually justifies acting on the stressed input before touching anything else, because every other figure in the table is downstream of it.

Results at a glance

  • Technician travel cost: 27,139 $ travel cost (headline result)
  • Loaded travel cost rate: 64.62 $ / hr
  • Recoverable travel cost: 17,539 $ travel cost
  • Fixed travel expenses: 9,600 $

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Technician Travel Cost calculator, set recoverable travel share to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.