Civil Rate Library
New Zealand
The most reliable rate is one built from your costs — your machines, your people, your suppliers, your overheads. Fieldlink's Rate Library lets civil contractors build, reuse and manage labour, plant, material, cartage and subcontractor rates so every estimator prices the same way.
Rate categories
Every category pairs with a free Civil Hub calculator so you can sanity-check the build-up before it goes in a tender.
Drainage
Pipe laying, bedding, manholes, connections — per metre and per unit rates.
Pipe Grade CalculatorRoading
Basecourse, asphalt, kerbing and reinstatement — per m²/tonne rates.
Asphalt Tonnage CalculatorPlant
Excavators, trucks, rollers — dry and wet hourly charge-out rates.
Excavator Charge-Out CalculatorLabour
Operators, drainlayers, labourers — fully-costed charge-out rates.
Labour Charge-Out CalculatorWhy we don't publish "the going rate"
Any indicative civil rate is exactly that — indicative. Real pricing moves with location, quantity, access, ground conditions, specification, material supply, plant availability, traffic management, disposal fees and project conditions. A rate that wins in South Auckland can lose money in Queenstown. That's why Fieldlink is built around your company's own rates, with cost build-ups you control — never a generic number someone told you to charge.
How a rate build-up works
Machine, wages, fuel, materials — the true direct cost per hour, metre or m³.
Yard, admin, insurance, vehicles — recovered across billable hours.
Margin on sell, not markup on cost — they're not the same thing.
Save the rate so every quote and estimate prices consistently.
Save and manage your actual company rates in Fieldlink — then price takeoffs, quotes and variations from them.