Pay for all labor
Your time gets a replacement wage. Employee wages include payroll burden. Profit begins only after the work is paid for.
Free crew pricing calculator
Know if your price can support a crew.
Enter one typical job. See what changes when paid employees replace your labor—before the hire exposes an unprofitable price.
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Most pricing calculators ask how much profit you want.
CrewMath first checks whether your “profit” is actually unpaid owner labor.How the result works
A clear economic floor—not a guess at market price.
CrewMath tells you what one job must produce to pay every cost you entered and retain your target operating margin.
Allocate the real business
Each job carries part of your annual overhead plus materials, equipment, acquisition, payment fees, and callbacks.
Solve for margin
The calculator works backward from the margin you want. It does not confuse a markup on cost with profit margin on revenue.
Formula
Crew-ready price = fixed job cost ÷ (1 − fees − reserve − target margin)
Then reality-check the market.
If customers will not pay the required price, improve production, raise average ticket, lower acquisition cost, or change the offer. Do not make the spreadsheet work by deleting a cost that still exists.
Quick answers
Before you make the hire
Should I count my labor if I do not pay myself hourly?
Yes. Use the wage required to hire a competent replacement. Otherwise unpaid or underpaid owner labor gets mislabeled as business profit.
What belongs in payroll burden?
Employer payroll taxes, workers' compensation, paid time off, benefits, uniforms, training, and other employment costs above the hourly wage. Use your records when you have them.
Why does job volume affect the required price?
More completed jobs spread fixed annual overhead across more work. Your direct job costs stay the same, but the overhead carried by each job changes.
Does this include sales tax or income tax?
No. Enter customer prices before sales tax. Income tax depends on your entity and location and is not treated as a job cost here. This is a planning tool, not tax advice.
Is my business data uploaded?
No. Calculations and saved settings remain in your browser. A share link contains the numeric scenario so someone else can reproduce it; Cloudflare Web Analytics does not log query strings.