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This calculation answers the rate a self-employed speech therapist needs to charge per billable hour to cover target income, ordinary business overhead, self-funded benefits, and tax reserves. It fits private practice, school contracting, telepractice, and cash-pay work where you set the price rather than accept an employee wage.
The result is a gross billing rate, not take-home pay. A $95 client rate must still absorb documentation time, cancellations, billing work, continuing education, state license costs, CCC maintenance, software, rent, supplies, and taxes. For per-visit work, use the same structure, then compare the visit fee with the actual clinical and nonclinical time each visit creates.
The closest BLS occupation is Speech-Language Pathologists, SOC 29-1127. BLS reported a May 2024 median wage of $95,410 per year, or $45.87 per hour, for wage and salary workers. OEWS wage data do not include self-employed workers, so that figure is a wage benchmark, not a private-practice billing rate.
Setting changes the comparison. BLS May 2024 median annual wages were $80,280 in education, $98,470 in offices, $101,560 in hospitals, and $106,500 in nursing and residential care. ASHA's 2024 Schools Survey reported hourly contractor medians of $52 for full-time work and $58 for part-time work. Use those numbers as a floor check, then add the costs an independent SLP must carry.
Use this formula: `(target income + overhead + benefits substitute + tax reserve) / billable hours`. For example, a private-practice SLP wants $88,000 in income, expects $16,400 in overhead, budgets $10,800 for self-funded benefits, and reserves $23,040 for taxes. If 1,440 hours are realistically billable, the required rate is $96.00 per billable hour.
The billable-hour estimate drives the result. A full calendar does not equal 2,080 billable hours because evaluations, notes, payer follow-up, cancellations, care coordination, marketing, and admin work consume time. A U.S. sole proprietor or independent contractor generally reports business profit or loss on Schedule C and uses Schedule SE to calculate Social Security and Medicare taxes on self-employment income.
A one-off calculation is enough when you are setting an opening rate, checking a school-contract offer, or comparing a per-visit fee with your expected time. It also works for a single annual review where your overhead, caseload, and payer mix stay stable.
A managed workflow matters when rates change by client, setting, payer, or service type. Everhour Reporting can group tracked time by project, member, task, date range, billable status, cost, revenue, and other columns, then export or schedule reports. That gives a speech therapy practice a cleaner way to compare billable clinical time with documentation, admin, and nonbillable work.
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Start with scheduled clinical hours, then subtract time lost to cancellations, no-shows, documentation, billing, care coordination, marketing, travel, supervision, and admin. Use billable hours only in the denominator. Counting every work hour lowers the rate because nonbillable work still has to be funded by the hours clients or payers actually pay for.
No. The BLS May 2024 median wage of $45.87 per hour covers wage and salary workers and excludes self-employed workers. A private-practice billing rate must also recover overhead, self-funded benefits, unpaid admin time, certification and licensure costs, and federal self-employment and income-tax reserves.
Convert the visit fee into an hourly equivalent by dividing the fee by total time tied to the visit. A $75 visit that takes 45 minutes of treatment, 15 minutes of documentation, and 15 minutes of travel or payer work equals $60.00 per hour because $75 divided by 1.25 hours equals $60.00.
Include ordinary practice costs such as rent, telepractice tools, scheduling software, liability insurance, assessment materials, billing fees, professional dues, licensure costs, continuing education, and CCC maintenance. ASHA-certified nonmembers must pay a $221 annual certification fee to maintain the CCC credential and complete 30 certification-maintenance hours during each 3-year interval.
Yes. ASHA states that telepractitioners must verify requirements in both locations, and its guidelines assert licensure in both the state from which services are provided and the state where the client is located at the time of service. Multi-state telepractice can add license fees, renewal time, and compliance admin to overhead.
Everhour Reporting provides customizable reports with 45+ columns, grouping, filters, date ranges, exports, and scheduled email delivery. A speech therapy practice can compare billable clinical time, nonbillable documentation, labor cost, revenue, and project profitability before changing rates or contract terms.
Track clinical and nonclinical hours, then use Everhour Reporting to compare billable work, costs, revenue, and profitability before the next rate review.
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