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Your flat-rate price book, built from your numbers.

Pick your trade. Set what you pay yourself, what the business costs, and the margin you keep. Every job gets a price with the math showing. Edit any row, add your own, download the PDF for the truck or the spreadsheet that keeps the formulas.

853jobs priced
24trades
$0the paid apps start at $39 a tech
1Your trade
Pick a trade and the book opens, priced from the wages people in that trade earn. Then make it yours.

How the price is built

Every price in the book is the same four-step sum, and you can see it on any row.

  1. Loaded wage. What you pay yourself per hour, plus payroll load for taxes, workers comp and your share of insurance. $41 becomes about $50.
  2. Overhead per hour. What the business costs a year divided by the hours you can bill. Not the hours you work. Driving, bidding, the supply house and the slow weeks come out of the same year, and 1,100 billable hours is honest for one truck.
  3. Rate. Loaded wage plus overhead per hour, divided by one minus your margin. At 20% margin, $81 of cost becomes a $100 rate.
  4. The job. Hours times the rate, plus materials at supply-house cost times your markup, plus the service fee if you charge one, rounded to the nearest $5.

What to do with it

Print the PDF and keep it in the truck. Quote from it on the phone. When a customer asks why, show them the row: the hours, the parts, and what it assumes. A price with a reason behind it closes more often than a lower price with none.

Then put it on a bid. Tap any job and the writer opens with the line and the price filled in, so the estimate the customer signs says what the book says.

Questions contractors ask

What is a flat-rate price book?

A list of the jobs you do most with a fixed price on each, so you can quote "$385 to clear it" before you touch anything. The price is your hours at your rate plus materials at your markup. The book does the arithmetic once so you never do it in a crawlspace.

Where do the hours and material costs come from?

Hours are what a competent one-person crew with the right tools takes, two people where the note says so. Materials are supply-house cost in 2026 before markup. Both are editable on every row, and your edits are remembered in this browser.

Where does the wage come from?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025 release, by occupation. The book opens at the top-quarter wage for your trade, because a one-truck owner who earns less than a good employee is not running a business yet. Tap Median or Top 10% to see how the book moves.

Why is the rate so much higher than the wage?

Because the wage is one piece. Payroll load adds taxes and comp. Overhead is the truck, insurance, phone and tools spread over the hours you can bill, which is about 1,100 a year, not 2,080. Then margin, so the business keeps something. The bar under your rate shows where every dollar of the hour goes.

Is this the same as the paid price book apps?

Those start at $39 to $99 per tech per month and ship with prices built on someone else's costs. This one is free, built on your costs, and the file is yours. It does not sync to a dispatch board. If you need that, you need the paid app.

Does the price book put the price on a bid?

Tap any job and Write this as a bid opens the writer with the job and the price filled in. The customer signs it on their phone. That part takes an account, free for 30 days.

Is anything saved on your side?

No. The dials, your edits and your added jobs live in this browser. The PDF and Excel files are built on request and not kept. The share link carries your numbers and nothing else.

The rate behind each trade's book

Each trade has a guide that walks the rate model from the BLS wage to the number you charge, with a worked bid and the mistakes that cost the most.

When the price is right, put it on an estimate the customer signs on their phone. Type the job and see it, no account needed. 30 days free, then $29 a month.