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True Trade Cost

Know what to charge before you quote.Pricing calculators for contractors, trades and small shops

Calculators for 40 trades. Put in what your business really costs, and every quote covers your wages, your overhead and a profit. Excel and Google Sheets.

Find your tradeWork out your hourly rate, free

  • 40 trade-specific calculators
  • Excel and Google Sheets
  • Instant download

One calculator. Everything you need to price the job.

Put in what your business costs once. Every quote is built from those numbers, and after the job the Job Log shows how close your estimate was, so the next price is even better. All in one spreadsheet you already know how to use.

  1. 1. Set up your costs

    Once a year

    • Rent, insurance and vehicles
    • Your crew, and your own pay
    • Equipment and tools
    • What you pay for materials

    Your real hourly rate

    $69.95

  2. 2. Create and send the quote

    Every job

    Materials
    $698
    Labour
    $2,288
    Permit and travel
    $1,100
    Cushion and profit
    $1,008

    Price before tax

    $5,094

    Sent to the customer as a PDF.

  3. 3. Check your estimates

    After the job, in the Job Log

    • R. Patel19% overQuoted 26 hrs, took 31
    • Greenview Condos6% overQuoted 8 hrs, took 8.5
    • D. Chen71% overQuoted 14 hrs, took 24

    Next time, quote it right.

Built for the way your trade actually works.

40 calculators, each set up for one trade: its own costs, its own easy-to-miss list, and a filled-in example job.

Being busy doesn't mean you're making money.

It's easy to miss a cost: a supply run, extra materials, the permit, or your overhead. Each one is small. Together they eat the profit you thought you made.

A $4,000 jobExample
Materials
−$1,140
Labour
−$1,520
What you thought was profit
$1,340
Overhead you forgot to count
−$740
Actual profit
$600

Yellow, grey, green or red: you always know what happened.

Yellow is yours
Your overhead, your wages, your prices, the job.
Grey is worked out
Your real hourly rate, the cost of each part, the forgotten costs.
Green is what you keep
The price, the profit, and whether the finished job made money.
Red needs a look
A price you haven't checked in months, a cost left out, or a job that lost money.