This free calculator prices a handyman job by combining labor hours, your hourly rate, marked-up materials, a trip charge, optional add-ons, and a minimum job floor into one number. Loaded with the seeded example (3 hours at $65 an hour, $80 in materials marked up 20%, and a 20-mile round trip at $0.65 a mile) it totals $304, the price shown the instant the page loads, before you change a single field.
Most handymen and small trade contractors price jobs off gut feel, which means the same job gets quoted differently depending on the day, the mood, or how badly the calendar needs filling. This calculator fixes that: enter labor hours, your hourly rate, materials cost with a markup, travel distance, and any add-ons, and it prices the job the same way every time.
It also builds in a minimum job charge floor, so a small job never slips through underpriced just because the labor hours alone look thin. Add-ons for same-day or emergency work, permit or inspection coordination, and debris haul-away are built in as flat surcharges, so the number in front of you already accounts for the parts of the job that are easy to forget until you are halfway through it.
Once the price is set, click "Print Estimate" for a clean, client-ready copy you can hand over or text a photo of on the spot, instead of texting a number from memory and hoping you remembered the trip charge.
How it works
- 1 Enter estimated labor hours and your hourly rate.
- 2 Enter materials cost (your cost) and set a materials markup percentage.
- 3 Enter trip/travel distance and rate per mile, and toggle any add-ons: same-day/emergency (+25%), permit/inspection coordination (+$75 flat), debris haul-away (+$50 flat).
- 4 Set a minimum job charge floor, click "Calculate Price," then "Print Estimate" for a client-ready copy.
Ways to use it
Quoting a job before you leave the driveway
Run the numbers on your phone right after the walkthrough and print or screenshot the estimate before you are back in the truck, instead of texting a number later that you have to remember correctly.
Never underbidding a small job again
The minimum job charge floor catches the jobs that are mostly a trip and twenty minutes of work, where labor hours alone would price you into losing money on the drive.
Pricing emergency and same-day calls consistently
The same-day/emergency surcharge is built into the calculator, so rush jobs get priced up automatically instead of you having to remember to add it, or worse, forgetting and eating the cost of dropping everything.