Break-Even Labor Rate Calculator
The foundation of profitable contractor pricing, know your real hourly rate before you quote another job.
Flat rate price books, code guides, and business templates for electricians, plumbers, HVAC techs, and carpenters. Open the file, set your hourly rate, and every price recalculates for your market. No software. No subscription. Just Excel.
Each Tradesman Office tool feeds directly into the next, so you're running on a connected system, not a pile of disconnected spreadsheets.
The Break-Even Calculator tells you the exact hourly rate you should be charging, the one that covers every real cost plus profit.
Plug that rate into any Flat Rate Price Book. 190-320 services, automatically priced to your real costs, ready to quote.
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Four product lines covering the office side of the trades: what to charge, what the code says, what to hand the customer, and where the money went.
Every service priced for your market. Change one number and the whole book recalculates. From $99.
The code answers you look up most, organized so you find them in seconds instead of digging through a 900-page book. $19.99 each.
Contracts, change orders, invoices, and the forms that keep you covered when a job goes sideways.
Know your break-even rate and which jobs actually made money. Real math, not gut feel.
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The foundation of profitable contractor pricing, know your real hourly rate before you quote another job.
250 NEC-based electrical services, pre-calibrated for your hourly rate. Hand customers a professional tiered quote in under two minutes.
The complete pricing system for every trade under one roof. Four calibrated price books, one purchase, save $198 versus buying separately.
Every product is built and tested on real job sites. No theory, no template factory, just tools that solve problems contractors actually have.
Buy it once, own it forever. Everything runs in Excel or Google Sheets, no $200/month SaaS subscription, no vendor lock-in, no "upgrade" paywalls.
The calculator feeds the price books. The price books use the forms. Everything connects, so you don't end up with six disconnected tools that don't talk to each other.
Start with the Break-Even Calculator to find your real hourly rate. Then plug it into any flat rate price book and start quoting like a professional.
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