Type your numbers. See your break-even, the price to quote, and exactly what pricing on markup instead of margin is costing you. No signup, nothing to download.
Send the result to yourself along with the free Job Pricing Starter — the same maths as a spreadsheet you can keep, in Excel or Google Sheets. No card, no trial.
No black box. Five steps, in order — check every one of them against your own job.
This page does one job at a time and forgets it. The spreadsheets keep every job, add the costs specific to your trade, work offline in Excel and Google Sheets, and are a one-time purchase — no subscription.
See the calculators →Work out the loaded cost of the labour (the wage plus payroll tax, workers comp, insurance and paid time off - typically about 30% on top), add materials, add your overhead share. That total is your break-even: below it you paid to work. Your price is the break-even divided by one minus your target margin - not cost plus a markup.
Markup is a percentage added on top of cost. Margin is the share of the final price you keep. Add 35% as markup to $506 of cost and you bill $683.10 and keep 25.9%. Price for a 35% margin on the same $506 and you bill $778.46. That is $95.36 more on one job for identical work, and at three jobs a week it is $14,876 a year.
More than the wage. Payroll tax, workers compensation, liability insurance and paid time off typically take a $25 an hour worker to roughly $32.50 an hour before any vehicle or equipment share. Pricing off the wage instead of the loaded cost understates every quote you write.
Yes, and there is no signup. It runs entirely in your browser - the numbers you type never leave your phone or computer. You only give an email if you want the results and the free spreadsheet sent to you.
Then it is worth twenty minutes. I am not a contractor — I do the arithmetic. On the call you tell me how you price now, and at the end I tell you honestly whether a model built on your numbers would help you or whether this calculator is already enough. Both answers happen.
Book a 20-minute call →No cost and no obligation. What I will not promise you is more won jobs — a correct price sometimes loses work, and that is the method working, not a fault in it.
