Know what to charge.
Free pricing calculators for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, landscaping and every other trade that sends a truck. No signup, no email wall.
A 50% markup is a 33% margin. If you add 50% to your cost and think you are keeping half, you are keeping a third. On $400,000 of work that gap is about $67,000 you thought you had.
The tools
- True Hourly Rate What you have to charge per hour to cover overhead, pay the crew, and still make money.
- Markup vs Margin Convert between the two, and see what a job actually leaves you.
- Job Quote Builder Labor, materials and overhead priced to the margin you actually want.
- New Hire Break-Even What a new tech has to bill before they pay for themselves.
Why another calculator site
Most contractor pricing advice is either a spreadsheet somebody emailed you in 2014 or a sales pitch with a calculator bolted on. The math here is open, the worked examples are checked, and nothing asks for your email before it gives you an answer.
Pricing is the highest-leverage number in a trade business. A crew that runs at a 12% margin and one that runs at 22% do the same work, hire the same people and buy the same trucks. One of them is building something.