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Pricing Calculator & Profitability Guide

Find the real number your business needs to charge, before you raise prices or quote one more job.

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Pricing Calculator & Profitability Guide

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What is inside

What you will get

The loaded labor rate formula, including the 50 percent billable efficiency assumption most operators skip

The 4x rule, validated across 200-plus franchise locations: customer rate must be at least four times base wage

The One Truck Breakdown Exercise, with the $250 to $680 per hour required-rate range found across hundreds of contractors

The COGS vs. overhead diagnostic that tells you which side of your business is leaking profit

True equipment cost math, including why a $1,200 skid steer payment actually costs $1,800 to $2,000 per month

Break-even per customer for both one-time and recurring revenue models

Profit margin bands by revenue stage, including why $500K at 10 percent net takes home the same as solo at $200K

Is this for you?

This is for you if...

Home service operators between $200K and $2M in revenue who suspect they are underpriced but have never run the math to prove it. Owners who can quote a job in their sleep but cannot tell you what one billable hour actually costs to deliver.

After reading

What you will be able to do

01

Calculate your loaded labor rate and overhead recovery per billable hour

02

Run the One Truck Breakdown Exercise on your own business

03

Diagnose whether your profit leak is COGS, overhead, or both

04

Set a defensible customer-facing rate using the Rule of 100

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