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Estimate complete service appointments per technician and across your team. Allow for travel, job duration, breaks, and daily administrative time.
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What is this technician daily job capacity calculator?
This calculator estimates how many complete appointments fit into a technician workday. It subtracts daily non-job time and divides the remaining minutes by service plus allocated travel time. Capacity is rounded down for each technician before calculating the team total.
How to use the calculator
Enter available technicians and shift hours. Subtract breaks and administration once per technician per day. Use a realistic service duration and travel allowance per appointment. Include travel from the starting point and back when building the average travel allowance.
Check the input assumptions
Review the help text beneath each field before calculating. Enter amounts in US dollars where shown and use consistent units. Change one assumption at a time to understand which inputs affect your result.
Formula and worked example
Example calculation
An eight-hour shift provides 480 minutes. After 60 minutes of breaks and administration, 420 remain. A 75-minute job with 30 minutes of travel uses 105 minutes, allowing four jobs per technician. Five technicians can complete 20 such jobs in the modeled day.
These numbers illustrate the calculation; they are not recommended rates or industry benchmarks.
How to interpret your result
The result is a capacity scenario, not a booking commitment. Use a longer service time for complex work or a larger travel allowance for dispersed customers. Review unused time per technician; it may cover small delays without creating another complete appointment.
What the estimate leaves out
The model assumes identical, independent jobs that need one technician. It does not optimize routes or enforce appointment windows, overtime rules, parts availability, or required skills. Do not combine unused minutes across technicians to promise another indivisible job.
Frequently asked questions
Why round down for each technician?
A technician with time for 3.5 jobs can complete only three full appointments under these assumptions. Adding all partial capacity together can overstate the jobs the team can actually assign.
How do I include breaks?
Enter daily breaks and administration together in minutes. Do not also remove those same minutes from the shift-hours input, or the allowance will be counted twice.
Does travel include the first and last journey?
It should. Divide the total work-related route time by the expected jobs to form a per-job allowance. Excluding route start or return travel can overstate capacity.
What about jobs needing two technicians?
This simple model assumes one technician per job. Plan crew jobs separately using crews as the resource and a consistent crew schedule, rather than mixing them with single-technician jobs.
Can I use the output as a daily sales target?
Use it as a starting capacity estimate. Validate it against actual service durations, cancellations, customer windows, and available parts before setting operational targets.
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