For trade & home service businesses

Pricing & Estimating Calculators

Price the job from your own numbers: how long it takes you, what an hour has to earn and what you spend on materials. Every calculator shows its math, so you can defend the quote and adjust it with confidence.

Job pricing tools

Start with your hourly rate

Every price here is built on the rate an hour of your work has to earn. If you've been pricing from your wage plus a little extra, run the labor cost calculator first. It adds payroll costs, unbilled time and overhead, then your profit, and gives you the number to use everywhere else.

How Trade Businesses Price Jobs

Most small service businesses start by copying a competitor's prices. That works until their costs, speed or route differ from yours, and they almost always do. Pricing from time is more reliable: estimate how long the job takes, multiply by the rate your business needs, add materials and set a minimum so small jobs still pay for the trip.

The tools here follow the same method for different trades. Each one lets you replace the default production rates with your own, which is the single biggest improvement you can make to your quotes. Time a few jobs, write down the square feet or hours, and use those numbers.

Frequently Asked Questions

Start from time: estimate the hours a job takes, multiply by the hourly rate your business needs to cover labor, overhead and profit, then add materials and any minimum charge. Each calculator here does that for a specific trade.

Use the labor cost calculator. It adds payroll burden to wages, spreads unbilled time and overhead across billable hours and adds your target profit margin.

No. They're built from your own numbers, so they reflect your costs and speed rather than an average from somewhere else. Compare the result with what you know about your local market before you quote.