Public service operations
Public service unit operating budget
Allocate a service budget over units delivered and calculate its funding gap.
Your inputs
Complete the fields for your selected method. Zero means intentionally zero, not unknown. Currency selection labels amounts; it does not convert exchange rates.
How this calculation works
unit cost = operating budget/service units; funding gap = budget - supplied funding or collected receipts
Define one service unit such as collections or completed requests for a consistent period. Negative gap means funding exceeds expense. No lawful public fee, procurement compliance, required service level or audited fund accounting is established. Use your own records for the same scope and period. Example figures are illustrative, not industry benchmarks. Results exclude income taxes and any cost you have not entered. Check the result before pricing work or committing resources.
What information do I need?
Use records for the same job, equipment or accounting period. Only the fields for your selected entry method are required. An unknown amount is not zero.
Input definitions and where to find them
- Staff and contracted service cost (selected currency): Use a supplier quote, invoice, payroll record or allocated cost for the exact job or period named here. Include this amount only once.
- Supplies equipment and other operations (selected currency): Use a supplier quote, invoice, payroll record or allocated cost for the exact job or period named here. Include this amount only once.
- Comparable services delivered in period (service units): Use the matching measured quantity, time log, schedule or clearly stated estimate. Zero means intentionally none; an unknown amount is not zero.
- Collected receipts or committed funding for same scope (selected currency): Use a supplier quote, invoice, payroll record or allocated cost for the exact job or period named here. Include this amount only once.
Use the Where to find this value controls beside the inputs for available work-it-out helpers. Estimates remain your assumptions; a helper does not verify the source figures.
Worked example
Example amounts use US dollars (USD).
Example answer: Operating cost per service unit is $30.00 for the illustrative inputs below.
Example inputs
- Staff and contracted service cost: $60,000.00
- Supplies equipment and other operations: $30,000.00
- Comparable services delivered in period: 3,000.00 service units
- Collected receipts or committed funding for same scope: $75,000.00
- Operating cost per service unit
- $30.00
- Funding gap for entered scope
- $15,000.00
- Entered operating budget
- $90,000.00
- Funding coverage
- 83.33 %
These illustrative values are not recommended rates or industry averages. Replace every example input with your own figures.
Use the result well
Allocate a service budget over units delivered and calculate its funding gap. Inputs come from your own records and stated assumptions; no rates or legal limits are looked up.
Keep inputs on the same scope and time basis. Calculations retain precision internally; displayed values generally round to two decimal places, with extra precision for very small values and whole-unit rounding where required. Economic comparisons describe your supplied assumptions and do not guarantee future results.
This tool provides business arithmetic. It does not approve engineering designs, establish legal or tax treatment, select equipment or certify safe operating conditions.