---
name: raise-billable-efficiency
description: "Read the billable-hour ratio and cut non-billable drive, restock, and rework time, since billable efficiency is the field's master number. Reach for this on a productivity question."
---

# Skill: Raise billable-hour efficiency

Non-billable time is the silent margin killer.

## Step 1 — Measure the billable ratio
Billable hours ÷ paid hours, by tech (§3 #3).

## Step 2 — Locate the non-billable time
Drive, restock, rework, idle.

## Step 3 — Fix dispatch and stocking
Route density and stocked trucks reduce drive/restock (§3 #6).

## Step 4 — Re-measure
Track the billable ratio after the change.

## Output
A billable-ratio read, the non-billable buckets, the dispatch/stocking fix, and the before/after.