Overview
Electrical pricing punishes you for the jobs that look simple. A homeowner asks what an EV charger costs and there are four honest answers depending on the run length and what is left in the panel, but you are standing in a driveway being asked for one number. Guess low and you eat the difference. Guess high and the next guy gets it.
This book is 250 electrical services with the guessing already done. Residential and light commercial, Good / Better / Best on every line, and a settings sheet that reprices the entire catalog the moment your hourly rate moves.
Sample line items
Real entries at Philadelphia metro calibration for 2026. Your market will differ, and the settings sheet is how you change it.
- 100A to 200A service upgrade, code compliant: $7,460
- 150A to 200A service upgrade: $5,720
- Whole-house surge protector: $760
- Recessed can, retrofit into finished ceiling: $340. New construction: $290
- Level 2 EV charger, standard run: $1,540. Plug-and-play on an existing 14-50: $410
- Aluminum branch circuit pigtailing: $400 to $1,200 by circuit count
Every one of these traces back to labor hours, your loaded rate, material at cost with markup, and overhead recovery. Nothing is a number somebody liked the look of. We opened the book up here and took a line apart all the way through.
What's inside
- 250 electrical services across residential and light commercial work
- Good / Better / Best tier pricing for every service
- NEC 2023-aligned service categories, so code-related work groups together
- Separate after-hours and emergency rate multipliers
- Service code column ready for QuickBooks or invoicing integration
- Formula-driven throughout, change one field and all 250 lines reprice
- Editable Excel workbook that opens in free Google Sheets
The service and panel problem this solves
Service work is where electricians lose the most money, because the scope hides behind a panel cover. Aluminum branch wiring nobody mentioned. A meter socket the utility wants replaced. A grounding electrode system that was legal in 1974 and is not now.
The book handles that with a base price and named add-ons rather than one padded number. Padding the base makes you expensive on every clean job in order to be covered on the messy ones, which means you win the messy ones and lose the rest. Quote the base, document the discovery, write the change order.
Who it's for
Residential and light commercial electricians running service, repair, and standard installation work. One truck or a few. If you are quoting from memory on the back of a receipt, or your price for the same job moved twice this month, this is the fix.
Who it isn't for
Commercial bid work and large projects are estimated from drawings, not pulled from a flat rate catalog, and this book will not help you there. If you dispatch six trucks through field service software and need native price book sync, buy the software.
Works best with
Pricing is one step in a sequence. These are the other three, in the order they matter.
- Break-Even Labor Rate Calculator, Work out your loaded hourly rate first, because the book prices against it
- Flat Rate Options Presentation Template, Turn the three tiers into a sheet the homeowner can hold
- Contractor Forms Bundle, Contract, change order, and invoice once they say yes
See the full system on our How It All Works page.
Why buy this one
It was built by a working electrician who prices this work, not by a company that licenses pricing data. The service list came out of jobs, which is why it includes the things you actually get called for and not a padded catalog of work nobody performs.
- One purchase. No per-technician licensing, no renewal, no losing access if you stop paying.
- Nothing between you and the formula. It is a spreadsheet. You can see exactly how every price is produced and change any part of it.
- Quote from anywhere. Excel, Google Sheets, tablet, phone.
- Direct support. Message through Etsy and the person who built it answers.