Use this free Budget Overrun Calculator to determine how much your project has exceeded its planned budget.
Enter the planned and actual costs to find your overrun percentage.
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Budget Overrun (%) = ((Actual Cost − Planned Budget) ÷ Planned Budget) × 100.
This percentage indicates how much your project exceeded the planned cost.
Example
If your planned budget was $100,000 and actual cost was $110,000:
Overrun = ((110,000 − 100,000) ÷ 100,000) × 100 = 10% overrun.