$6,000 ÷ 120 days is $50. $600 ÷ 120 days is $5. Day fee $55.
The opening kit costs $6,000 and is spread over 120 days, which is $50.00 a day. Consumables of $600 over the same 120 days are $5.00 a day. The day fee is $50.00 + $5.00 = $55.00. This is a planning split of the dollars you type. It is not an IRS depreciation claim, and it does not pick a recovery period from a tax table.
Change the kit cost and the day fee moves in a straight line. A $12,000 kit over 120 days is $100.00 before consumables. A $3,000 kit over 120 days is $25.00 before consumables. Change the day count when the kit will be replaced sooner. Over 60 days the same $6,000 is $100.00, and $600 of consumables is $10.00, so the day fee is $110.00. Over 365 days the $6,000 is about $16.44, and the $600 is about $1.64.
Put the day fee into a shoot quote as an expense or a gear day, not as a second copy of the hourly floor. Photo shoot quote opens at $2,275.00 and has an expenses box that starts at $250. Two days of this $55 fee are $110, which you can type into that expenses box if the photo quote should carry the kit. Video shoot quote has its own gear-day line, opening at 2 days times $50 inside the $3,220.00 quote.
Consumables are the dollars that leave with the job: batteries, tape, bulbs, or a backdrop you will not use again. They are divided by the same day count as the kit. If a job burns $40 of consumables once, do not spread that $40 across 120 days. Add it on the shoot quote instead. The $600 figure is the amount you expect to spend across the whole 120-day window.
Other freelance tools price labor, not kit recovery: logo design quote, sprint price, retainer overage, and billing increment. Keep this page for the $6,000 kit, the 120 days, and the $55.00 day fee.
Kit cost divided by the days you enter, plus the extra amount divided by its days. This page does not claim an IRS depreciation method.