Determining Your Costs

Cost of Services with Step one highlightedAnnual expenses include direct expenses and indirect expenses.

Direct expenses are expenses that can be clearly linked to a specific program or service.  These include:

  • The cost of paying staff to run the program or provide the service (including wages, taxes, insurance); and
  • Other program expenses, which will vary with each service and with each organization. 

The key is that the expenses can be directly linked to the service you are providing. 

 

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