What this calculator compares
Use actual provider-confirmed hours and technician numbers. A four-hour package is a time allowance, not a promise that every task will be completed. List mixed trades separately and confirm who can perform each task.
This tool calculates from your entered quotations; it does not estimate a market tariff or verify a provider. Blank prices, unknown tax terms and unresolved extras keep the result incomplete. You must confirm the topic-specific scope checks before a cost difference appears.
How the arithmetic works
For a single hourly rate, labour = rate × the greater of quoted scenario hours or minimum billed hours. A per-technician rate also multiplies by technician count; a whole-team rate does not. Enter hours after applying the provider’s agreed billing increments. First-hour premiums and changing rates are not modelled: ask for a written scenario total and enter it as a fixed amount.
Fixed-job and time-package amounts are added once, regardless of the entered hours and technician count. Both details remain required for a useful comparison. Task labels and quantities are a common work brief, never a source of predicted durations. A booked-time comparison does not guarantee completion or cover unapproved overtime or return visits.
Provider amount = labour/package + separately charged provider parts + visit + extras − eligible visit credit. A credit cannot exceed either the charged visit fee or the entered provider work excluding that visit. It cannot offset customer-bought parts. An included or no-charge visit is not deducted again. This model does not handle a separate cash refund arrangement.
The standard UAE VAT rate is 5%. VAT is added once to VAT-exclusive provider amounts, and not added to amounts already including VAT or confirmed not charged. Enter all of one provider’s amounts on the same VAT basis.
Project cost = provider total after its VAT treatment + your separately purchased parts at their final retail total, including any retail VAT and delivery. This keeps customer-supplied parts visible without taxing them twice. Already-owned parts count at the value you explicitly enter; entering zero deliberately excludes their historic purchase cost. No deposit or prior payment is deducted, so the result is not a remaining balance.
A worked example
Illustrative arithmetic, not a market price: AED 100 per technician per hour, two technicians, 1.5 planned hours and a two-hour minimum produce AED 400 labour. A whole-team rate of AED 100 would instead produce AED 200. Neither calculation says how many tasks can be completed.
Assumptions and limits
Money is entered in AED with up to two decimal places. Each monetary field is limited to AED 1,000,000; item counts to 100; handyman lists to 12 rows; hours to 100; and technicians to 20. These are input-error safeguards, not market, capacity or safety limits. Invalid values are not silently rounded into valid inputs. Calculated monetary lines, VAT and totals are rounded to two decimal places.
Unentered damage, scope changes and future work are excluded. The known-provider subtotal uses the amounts as entered, without adding unconfirmed VAT or customer purchases; it is not an all-in quote. Even a complete cost comparison does not certify suitability, workmanship, insurance or approval.
No task duration, completion promise or trade competence is inferred. Electrical, gas, structural and other specialist work must be assessed and assigned appropriately. Do not add hazardous tasks merely to use a package’s remaining time.
Read the related Dubai cost and scope guide·Handyman services