Price driveways, patios and slabs from your own costs
You put in what your concrete business costs to run once. After that, every pour is priced from your own numbers, not from a price someone else quoted.
- Know what an hour of your crew really costs Yard rent, insurance, trucks, equipment and wages, yours included, become one break-even rate per crew hour.
- Price the whole pour, not just the concrete Tear-out, base, forms, steel, the pour and the finish each get their own line.
- Still quote by the square foot You get the job total, the price per square foot and the price per yard from the same numbers.
- Stop leaving money on the table Easy-to-miss costs like test holes and short-load fees sit on a checklist that has to be answered before the quote is ready.
- Send a professional quote the same night A one-page customer quote with your scope, deposit and terms, ready to print or save as a PDF.
- Find out which pours made money The Job Log tracks every quote, won or lost, and the real hours each job took.
- One-time payment, no subscription
- Instant download
- Excel and Google Sheets
How it turns yards, tons and crew hours into a driveway quote
The file has six tabs. You set up your business once, update material prices when your plant or yard changes them, and make one quote per job.
- Start HereWhat to fill in first. Plan on one evening.
- Shop SetupYour yearly costs, trucks, equipment and crew, turned into one break-even rate per crew hour.
- Price ListWhat you pay for ready-mix per delivered yard, rebar by the stick, gravel and dump fees by the ton, forms and cure, each with the date you last checked it.
- QuoteType the square feet and thickness and it works out the yards. Add the tear-out, base, forms, pour and finish hours, answer the checklist, and it gives the price for the job, per square foot and per yard.
- Customer QuoteThe one page your customer sees: scope, price, deposit and terms.
- Job LogAfter the pour, the real hours go in, so you know if the job made money.
What is a break-even rate? It is what one crew hour has to bring in to cover your wages and every other cost of running the business, before any profit. Anything you charge above it is profit. The true hourly rate guide explains it in more detail.
Prefilled example built-in
The file comes filled in with a made-up concrete company and its $11,782 driveway quote, so you see a finished quote before you type in your own numbers. The example company is an owner-finisher and two crew, with a break-even of $57.83 per crew hour.
Its sample quote tears out an old asphalt driveway, lays a gravel base and pours a 24 x 40 ft, 4 inch broom-finish driveway with a rebar grid and saw-cut joints.
| A | B | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Part of the price | Amount |
| 2 | Materials, labour, equipment and permit | $7,947 |
| 3 | Easy-to-miss costs | $930 |
| 4 | Markup, cushion and profit | $2,905 |
| 5 | Price to the customer | $11,782 |
The $2,905 is kept after every cost, the owner's wage included, and the job pays about $101.84 per labour hour. The full walk-through is on how to charge for concrete work.
$930
That is what the easy-to-miss lines alone added to this one example quote. It is about 18 times what the calculator costs. Miss them once and the file has paid for itself.
- One-time payment, no subscription
- Instant download
- Excel and Google Sheets
Why copying someone else's square-foot price loses money
Most concrete work is priced by the square foot, and a lot of that number gets copied from another contractor or a Facebook group. The problem is that the number knows nothing about your job: how thick the slab is, whether there is old concrete to tear out, or how far the concrete has to be wheeled.
Slab thickness is the easiest example. A 6 inch slab takes 50% more concrete than a 4 inch slab the same size, and more time to place and finish. Quote it at the same square-foot price and that extra concrete comes straight out of your profit.
That is why this calculator prices each job from its own costs first, then shows you the square-foot price at the end. You still get a per-foot number to give the customer, but it is one that covers your costs on that job.
Test holes, short loads and the other pour costs it catches
The Quote tab won't mark a quote ready until each of these lines has a Yes, No or N/A:
- Test holes at the site visit, before buried concrete becomes another dump run.
- Hidden or extra-thick concrete at tear-out: more tons, more trips, more fuel.
- The extra yard, so a big pour never runs short between trucks.
- The short-load fee when a small job orders under the plant minimum.
- A pump truck or power buggy when the ready-mix truck can't reach the forms.
- A crack callback reserve. Left as No in the example on purpose, so the warning stays until you set your own number.
Exactly what you get
One spreadsheet file, sent as an instant download the moment you pay. It opens in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. No subscription, no app and no login.
- The six-tab calculator, ready for your own numbers.
- A complete example concrete company, with a finished driveway quote you can study before you start.
- Flatwork customer terms you can edit, including truck access, cracking between joints, and a line that turns surprises at tear-out into a signed change order.
- A Job Log that shows your win rate and which pours ran over their hours, the habit covered in job costing.
How it compares
Most owners price a job one of these ways. Here is what each one gives you.
| Copying another company's price | A free estimate template | Estimating software | This calculator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starts from your own costs | No | No | Varies | Yes |
| Makes you answer the easy-to-miss costs | No | No | Varies | Yes |
| Shows which jobs made money | No | No | Varies | Yes |
| Works in Excel and Google Sheets | – | Yes | No | Yes |
| Cost | Free | Free | Usually a monthly fee | $49.95 once |
Who it's for: flatwork outfits of 1 to 15 people
It fits owner-operators and small flatwork companies (about 1 to 15 people) pouring driveways, patios, walkways, pads and floors, and finishers who price per square foot from memory. Solo finisher or a crew of 15, small pad or big driveway, it works the same way, because every number in it is yours.
It is not for commercial contractors bidding from plans with takeoff software, crews already estimating inside a CRM, or anyone who only wants a free yardage calculator. To see your rate before buying, try the free true hourly rate calculator.
Stop pricing pours from someone else's number. Price every driveway, patio and slab from your own costs, catch what usually gets missed, and see which jobs made money.
Concrete & Flatwork Pricing Calculator
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