Price your work with the numbers behind it.
Burdened labor, overhead, markup, margin — the costs most quotes guess at. RateCraft turns them into a price you can defend, and shows the formula behind every figure it produces.
Pricing a job is more than adding up materials.
A job costs more than the supply-house invoice, and the price has to do more than cover it. Most underpriced work isn't lost on price — it's lost in the estimate.
What a job really costs
- Labor — at its true burdened rate, not just the wage
- Labor burden — payroll taxes, workers' comp, benefits
- Materials, waste and delivery
- Subcontractors
- Overhead — insurance, trucks, software, office
- Travel, disposal, permits, rental gear
What the price has to decide
- Markup vs. margin — they are not the same number
- A final price that survives contact with the customer
- Profit left after overhead takes its share
Miss these quietly and the business stays busy while it goes broke. RateCraft makes them visible before the quote goes out.
From labor cost to profitable price
Pricing decisions cascade. Each RateCraft tool owns one link in this chain — and links to the next, so you can walk a number all the way from a wage to a profit.
See where the price comes from
A $1,500 bathroom refresh, priced honestly. Materials and labor are only the start: overhead rides on every job, and the markup exists to fund the business — not to pad the invoice.
- Job Pricing Calculator — builds this full breakdown into a recommended price
- Markup Calculator — what that 25% markup means as a margin (20%, not 25%)
- Margin Calculator — check a quote's margin before the customer ever sees it
Start with the essentials
Contractor Markup Calculator
You know your costs and think in markup.
Get the selling price, the profit in dollars, and what that markup really means as a margin.
Open calculator →Job Pricing Calculator
You're pricing a whole job — labor, materials, subs, the lot.
Get a recommended price built from a full cost breakdown plus your target margin.
Open calculator →Contractor Hourly Rate Calculator
You work solo and set your own rate.
Get the hourly rate that covers your income goal, your expenses and the hours you can actually bill.
Open calculator →Find the tool for your problem
Price the job
Turn job costs into a price that carries your margin.
Contractor Markup Calculator
Enter your job costs, choose a markup, and see the exact selling price, profit dollars and gross margin .
Open calculator →Contractor Margin Calculator
Work backwards.
Open calculator →Job Pricing Calculator
The full picture in one place.
Open calculator →Flat Rate Pricing Calculator
Build a fixed price for a service call from the real costs behind it .
Open calculator →Understand your costs
Know what an hour of work truly costs before you quote it.
Labor Burden Calculator
A $25/hour employee doesn't cost $25 an hour. Enter the wage plus taxes, insurance, benefits and non-billable time to see the fully burdened hourly cost you should be using in every estimate..
Open calculator →Contractor Overhead Calculator
Insurance, truck, tools, phone, software, accounting .
Open calculator →Contractor Hourly Rate Calculator
Built for owner-operators.
Open calculator →Protect the business
See the numbers that decide whether the business itself works.
Built for service businesses
The inputs are the ones these businesses live with — burdened labor, workers' comp, truck costs, non-billable hours. Trade-specific tools (electrical, plumbing, HVAC and more) are being added over time; the core pricing math below applies to every one of them today.
What makes it different
Show the math
Formulas are printed next to results — including the markup-margin conversion that quietly costs contractors thousands.
Understand the full cost
Labor at its burdened rate, overhead per billable hour — not generic "revenue vs. COGS" inputs.
Price for profit
Tools don't stop at cost: they end at a price, a margin and the profit you keep.
Free and practical
No signup, no email gate, nothing stored. Open a calculator, get your number, close the tab.
How we calculate
Standard accounting definitions of markup, margin, burden and break-even; formulas, assumptions and limitations listed on every tool page. Cited ranges (like typical burden of 25–40%) are labeled as planning heuristics — your own numbers always beat a benchmark.
Results are planning estimates, not accounting or tax advice. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
The numbers behind your price
How to Calculate Labor Burden (And Why $25/hr Isn't $25/hr)
Payroll taxes, workers' comp, benefits — and the billable-hours divisor most explanations skip. Build your true hourly labor cost step by step.
Read the guide →Guide · 8 minHow to Write an Estimate: What Every Line Is For
An estimate isn't a form to fill in — it's the visible half of your costing math. What each section must contain, and the mistakes that lose jobs or lose money.
Read the guide →Guide · 7 minGeneral Contractor Markup: What's Typical and What Yours Should Be
Published GC markups range from under 10% to 50% — which tells you the number is a decision, not a fact. What the ranges actually reflect, and how to set yours.
Read the guide →Stop guessing what a job should cost.
Use the numbers behind your work to build a price that covers your costs and protects your profit.
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