I don't think the target should be 2000 billable hours in this scenario—shoot for 1000. Its really hard to stay legitimately billable for 40 hours a week no mat

I don't think the target should be 2000 billable hours in this scenario—shoot for 1000. Its really hard to stay legitimately billable for 40 hours a week no matter what your rate is, unless you're charging a day or weekly rate and don't worry about hourly itemization. 20 hours a week is pretty easy and if you calibrate everything to that, you end up with gravy more often than not.