Free calculator
The invoice says one thing. Count the quoting, the driving, the phone calls and the trip back for a forgotten part, and the picture usually changes.
The Operations Kit ($19) has the job-costing sheet this calculator is based on — five cost buckets, one Friday close, no software.
A simple sheet for logging real hours per job, so you can spot your best and worst work over a month.
Most owners judge a job by its price and the hours on site. But the site hours are only part of what the job consumed. A $1,800 job that took 14 hours looks excellent — until you add the site visit to quote it, two hours of driving, the parts run, and the evening spent chasing payment.
Gross profit = charged − materials.
Total hours = on site + travel + quoting/admin.
True hourly = gross profit ÷ total hours.
Run this on your last five jobs. A pattern almost always appears: one type of work quietly pays double another. That's the most useful thing you can learn about your own business — and it usually argues for doing less of something, not more of everything.
If a job type consistently lands below your target rate, you have three honest options: raise the price, cut the hidden hours, or stop taking that work.
Quoting, follow-ups, invoicing and chasing — that's exactly what we automate. Same jobs, fewer hidden hours, better true hourly rate.