What to charge for a wash - chemicals, labour, overhead, break-even and the price. Free, no signup.
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.
Costs the chemicals everyone forgets ($14 a wash is $10,920 a year), then checks you against the per-square-foot market band. This page does one job at a time and forgets it. The spreadsheet keeps every job, works offline in Excel and Google Sheets, and is a one-time purchase.
See the Pressure Washing Pricing Calculator →Start from cost, not from what the last guy charged. Hours on site at your loaded labour rate, plus chemicals and consumables, plus your overhead share, is your break-even. The price is that divided by one minus your target margin.
Yes, and almost nobody does. At about $14 of chemical a wash and five washes a week, that is $10,920 a year you are absorbing. It never shows up on a quote because it is bought monthly and used daily.
Quote per job, but check the result against the per-square-foot band so you know whether you are inside the market. Pricing straight off a per-square-foot number is frequency-blind and ignores your drive time, setup and chemical mix.
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.
