Find out which jobs actually make you money
Plenty of jobs look profitable until materials, labor, overhead and windshield time come out of the price. Drop in the numbers for one job and see the real margin instantly — and get a clear flag when a job is quietly losing you money. Made for plumbers, HVAC techs, electricians and landscapers.
This job's numbers
The total revenue for this one job — the quoted/invoiced price the customer pays you.
What the materials, parts and disposables for this job actually cost you to buy.
Labor hours on the job
What an hour of labor costs you (wage + payroll burden)
Round-trip drive hours for this job
Cost per hour of drive time (wage + vehicle)
Share of this job's revenue that goes toward running the business (rent, insurance, software, admin).
Gross profit = price − materials − labor − drive cost. Net profit = gross profit − overhead allocation. Margins are a share of the job price. Profit-per-hour divides net profit across labor + drive hours.
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The jobs that quietly drain your bank account
A "busy" week full of low-margin jobs can leave you with less in the bank than a slower week of the right ones.
A full schedule isn't the same as a profitable one
Most contractors price off the job price and the obvious costs — materials and a couple of hours of labor. What gets missed is the quiet stuff: the hour each way of drive time, the share of insurance, fuel, software and admin that every job has to carry, and the real loaded cost of labor once payroll burden is added.
Add those in and a job that looked like it made $1,200 can turn into a few hundred dollars — or a loss. Do that across a packed week and you've worked flat out to go backwards. This calculator pulls all of it out of the price so you can see the real number, and flags the jobs that lose money before they sink your month.
Once you can see which jobs and which types of work actually pay, you can quote the winners higher, fire the losers, and stop subsidising customers who cost you more than they're worth.
How it works
No black box — every dollar is on your screen.
Enter the job
Drop in what you charge, then your materials, labor (hours × cost or a flat figure), drive time and overhead.
See the real margin
Gross profit, net profit after overhead, both margins and an effective profit-per-hour — calculated live as you type.
Get a straight verdict
A green, amber or red banner tells you instantly whether the job is healthy, thin, or quietly losing you money.
A job costing calculator built for the trades
Most of us learn to price a job off gut and the obvious costs — a number for materials and a couple of hours of labor. The trouble is that a real job has costs the quote rarely shows: the drive each way, the loaded cost of labor once payroll burden is added, and the slice of rent, insurance, fuel, software and admin that every job has to carry. This free job costing calculator pulls all of it out of the price so you can answer the only question that matters: am I actually making money on this job?
It is built for plumbers, HVAC techs, electricians, landscapers, roofers and any service business that quotes work by the job. Drop in the job price and your costs and you get a clear contractor profit margin in seconds — gross profit, net profit after overhead, both margins, and an effective profit-per-hour — with a banner that flags the thin and money-losing jobs before they eat your week. No spreadsheet, no formulas to remember.
Use it before you send a quote to sanity-check your price, or after a job to see what you really cleared. Run a few of your typical jobs through it and patterns jump out fast: which kinds of work pay, which customers cost more than they are worth, and where you have been quietly subsidising someone else's emergency. That is the difference between a full schedule and a profitable one.
Frequently asked questions
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Do I need to sign up or create an account?
How do I know if a job is actually profitable?
What is the difference between gross profit and net profit on a job?
Why should I include drive time and overhead in job costing?
What is a good profit margin for a contractor or trade business?
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