Job pricing calculator
Add the cost of doing the work, choose a target margin, and calculate a price before tax.
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Example values are filled in. Change them to match your business.
Two people working 4 hours = 8 worker-hours. Include travel time here if it is paid labor.
Pay plus payroll costs per worker-hour, including your own time. Use your cost, not your client billing rate.
Your total material cost for this job.
Fuel, mileage, or parking. Exclude labor already counted above.
A share of rent, insurance, and other business costs. Exclude costs already included in labor or materials.
The share of your selling price left after the costs entered here. This example is not a recommended margin.
Your calculation
Price before tax
$257.14
- Labor
- $100.00
- Total entered cost
- $180.00
- Amount above entered costs
- $77.14
- Margin
- 30%
- Markup
- 42.86%
All amounts are in USD. Sales tax is excluded. Results reflect only the costs you enter.
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Price the work with your costs in view.
Labor is the total worker-hours multiplied by your hourly labor cost. Add materials, travel expenses, and the overhead allocated to this job once. The result covers these entered costs and your chosen margin; it does not determine what customers in your market will pay.
Price = total cost ÷ (1 − margin ÷ 100)
A cleaning job with a 30% target margin
Illustrative amounts in USD, before sales tax. These are not recommended rates or margins.
- 4 worker-hours × $25 in hourly labor cost = $100 in labor.
- $100 labor + $50 materials + $10 travel + $20 overhead = $180 total cost.
- $180 ÷ (1 − 30 ÷ 100) = about $257.14 before tax.
About $77.14 remains above the entered costs. Adding 30% to cost instead would give a $234 price and only a 23.08% margin.
Common questions
Should I enter my billing rate as the hourly labor cost?
Use the cost of the labor, including your own time and any payroll costs you need to cover. Your customer billing rate also covers other costs and profit, so using it here can count those amounts twice.
How do I avoid counting overhead or travel twice?
Enter each cost once. If paid travel time is already in worker-hours, use travel expenses only for costs such as fuel or parking. Add job overhead only for costs not already included in labor or materials.
Does the result include IVU or other sales tax?
No. The price is before sales tax, and the calculator does not select a tax rate or determine taxability. Confirm the applicable treatment separately when preparing your estimate or invoice.
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