Asking for Reviews Without Being Awkward
When to ask, how to ask and what to do with the review that goes badly.
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Job price calculator
Work out what a job has to sell for before it is worth doing. Every line of the arithmetic is shown, so you can see which number is hurting you.
The job
Only used to label the result. It does not change any number.
What the hours cost you
What the hour costs the business, including payroll tax, not what you hope to earn.
Materials, overhead and profit
Monthly fixed costs divided by monthly direct costs, as a percentage.
What to charge
$152.06 to $194.30
Target price $168.96. That works out to $46.08 an hour of labour once materials are taken out.
The range is the target price at 10 percent below and 15 percent above, which is room to discount a good customer or price in a hard access job. It is not market data.
The arithmetic
- Paid hours on this job
- 3.67 h
- Your labour
- $117.33
- Helper labour
- $0.00
- Materials at cost
- $0.00
- Direct cost of the job
- $117.33
- Overhead at 20%
- $23.47
- Break-even price
- $140.80
- Profit at 20%
- $28.16
- Material markup at 15%
- $0.00
- Target price
- $168.96
3.00 h on site plus 0.67 h driving
3.67 h x $32.00
3.67 h x 0 helper(s) x $22.00
Labour plus materials, before anything else
This job’s share of insurance, fuel, phone, software, the truck
Charge less than this and the job costs you money
What is left for you after the job pays for itself
Covers sourcing, pickup and returns
Where these numbers come from
Every figure on this page is derived from the inputs you typed. We do not hold survey data on what other businesses in your trade charge, so we will not pretend to show you a typical rate. Treat the result as your own floor, then price against what you know about your own market.
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