Business Income and Extra Expense Calculator
Business income insurance replaces the income a business loses while it recovers from a covered loss, and extra expense coverage pays the added costs of keeping it running in the meantime. Pick your industry, enter 12 months of income and the expenses that would stop during a shutdown, estimate how many months recovery would take and what it would cost, and see the amount to discuss with your broker.
How to Use This Calculator
- Pick your industry. The worksheet shows the income and expense lines that fit it.
- Enter 12 months of income and the expenses that would stop during a shutdown, and choose whether to include ordinary payroll.
- Enter the months a recovery would take and the extra expense for the first month, the final month and each month between.
- If spending on extra expense would shorten the recovery, enter the reduction, then review the total with your broker.
Here's your calculation:
[(12 Month Business Income minus Ordinary Payroll Excluded) ÷ 12 × Months to Recover] × (100% minus Reduction %) + Extra Expense = Business Income & Extra Expense Required
Enter Your Figures
Estimate your business income insurance needs in a few simple steps.
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How the Estimate Is Calculated
- 12 month business income: your income fields less your deductible expense fields.
- Ordinary payroll (optional): the share of annual ordinary payroll not included is taken off: payroll × (365 minus days included) ÷ 365. Zero days takes off all of it; 365 days, or a blank field, takes off none.
- Value of duration of loss: the adjusted 12 month figure ÷ 12 × the months to recover, plus any R&D grant or contract income at full value (it is a project figure, not prorated). Never below $0.
- Extra expense: the first month, plus the final month, plus the per month figure for each month in between (months to recover less two).
- Final analysis: if paying extra expense would shorten the recovery, the percentage you enter reduces the value of duration of loss only. The total required is that adjusted amount plus the extra expense.
Example (All Other): $2,400,000 gross revenue less $900,000 cost of goods sold and $300,000 of expenses that would stop is $1,200,000. Including 90 days of $365,000 ordinary payroll takes off $275,000, leaving $925,000. Six months to recover gives $462,500. Extra expense of $40,000 in the first month, $10,000 in the final month and $15,000 in each of the four months between is $110,000. A 20% reduction leaves $370,000 of business income, for a total of $480,000.
Business income can carry its own coinsurance clause, and your building limit has one too: check it with our property coinsurance calculator.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does business income insurance cover?
It replaces the net income a business loses and pays the expenses that continue, such as rent, loan payments and key payroll, while it recovers from a covered property loss like a fire.
What is extra expense?
Extra expense pays the added costs of staying open or reopening sooner after a covered loss: a temporary location, rented equipment, overtime or expedited shipping. It is usually written together with business income.
Should ordinary payroll be included?
Ordinary payroll is the pay of employees who are not essential to reopening. Including it for the full year keeps your team paid through a long recovery. Excluding it or limiting it to 90 or 180 days lowers the limit and the premium, but those wages are not covered after that point.
What is the period of restoration?
It is the time from the date of the loss until the property should be repaired or replaced with reasonable speed and the business can operate again. Enter it as months to recover, and allow for permits, construction delays and the time it takes customers to come back.
How often should I update my worksheet?
At least once a year before renewal, and any time revenue, locations or operations change materially. A limit set from old figures can leave you underinsured, and a business income coinsurance clause can reduce a claim.
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