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Free pricing calculator for home-service jobs

Find the hourly rate your business needs, price a job line by line, and see the real margin before you agree to a discount. Built for plumbers, HVAC techs, electricians, roofers, landscapers, cleaners, pest control, and pool pros. No signup, and nothing you type leaves your browser.

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The boxes start with a made-up example business so you can see how it works. Swap in your own numbers.

1. Your break-even and recommended hourly rate

2. Price a job and check the margin

3. Markup and margin converter

Markup is what you add on top of cost. Margin is the share of the price you keep. They aren't the same number: a 50% markup is a 33.3% margin.

Change either box and the other one updates. Margin = markup / (1 + markup). Markup = margin / (1 - margin).

How the math works

• Billable hours = techs × paid hours per week × weeks × billable efficiency.
• Labor cost per billed hour = wage × (1 + burden) / efficiency, because you also pay for the hours you can't bill.
• Overhead per billed hour = yearly overhead / billable hours.
• Break-even rate = labor cost per billed hour + overhead per billed hour.
• Recommended rate = break-even / (1 - target margin). Adding 15% to break-even only gets you about a 13% margin. Dividing by 0.85 gets a true 15%.
• Job margin = (price - full cost) / price. Green clears your target, amber is profitable but under target, red loses money.

For the long version with a worked example, read how to price a home-service job. When a customer pushes back, use the "your price is too high" replies, then send the quote with the free text generator.

This calculator is a planning aid, not tax or accounting advice. Check your overhead and burden numbers with your bookkeeper.