Cross-Trade Pricing & Sizing Calculators

The trade-agnostic toolbox: labor burden, markup vs margin, overhead recovery, vehicle cost and trip charge, plus HVAC, roofing, electrical and cleaning sizing.

Calculators in this topic

Some field-service math is the same no matter what trade you’re in, and some trades are high-demand enough to deserve a calculator even without a hub of their own. This page gathers both: the back-office pricing primitives every operator needs before a bid, and a handful of single-trade sizing tools for work that doesn’t fit under lawn, pool, or pest. Everything is an estimate, US-default, and runs in your browser. Nothing you enter leaves the page, and there is no signup.

The pricing primitives

These are the upstream numbers the suite’s core pricing tools treat as givens, and this is where you produce them. What does a technician actually cost you per billable hour once you load wages with taxes, comp, and benefits? That is the labor burden rate calculator. Once that loaded hour exists, the hiring break-even calculator tests one marginal seat with it: the loaded wage plus the truck and tools against the billable hours and jobs a week that hire has to sell before the seat pays for itself. What should you charge for a part? The parts and material markup calculator sets that. How much overhead must each job carry to keep the lights on? The overhead recovery rate calculator spreads your monthly fixed cost over the work that has to absorb it. What is your truck costing per mile, and what’s a fair show-up fee? Those are the vehicle cost-per-mile calculator and the trip charge and service call fee calculator. And the one that quietly costs operators the most money: is “25% markup” really a 25% margin? (It’s a 20% margin, and the markup vs margin converter converts either direction.) Each answers one of these and shows the working, then feeds straight into the job pricing hub.

When a cost moves mid-season instead of at the annual review, the fuel surcharge calculator works out what to add per job when fuel moves, indexed to a baseline with a trigger, a step, and a cap, so you adjust one line rather than reopening every price you’ve quoted.

What the software and the card reader cost

Two line items live inside that overhead figure and are almost always understated. The FSM software true-cost calculator builds the all-in monthly and year-one number from your crew size, card volume, and attach costs instead of the advertised plan price, and the payment processing fee calculator turns a rate per transaction into what a year of invoices costs you to collect. If you’re weighing one vendor, the Jobber pricing calculator and the Housecall Pro pricing calculator run the same base-plus-seats-plus-add-ons arithmetic against each vendor’s own published plans. Seats are not the only billing basis on the market, and the difference decides which vendor is cheaper at your crew size: Service Fusion versus Jobber sets a flat per-company rate with unlimited users against per-seat plans, on each vendor’s own published pricing, and computes the crew size where the two cross rather than estimating it. Whatever total you land on belongs in the overhead recovery figure above, not in a drawer.

The single-trade sizing tools

A few head-term jobs are worth a dedicated calculator even though Fieldwynn has no niche hub for them: HVAC load and tonnage, the air duct cleaning pricing calculator (a per-vent and per-system quote distinct from an HVAC repair), roofing squares and bundles, electrical wire size and voltage drop, soft-wash mix and dilution, the pressure washing estimate paired with the pressure washer nozzle size calculator that picks the right tip orifice from your pump’s GPM and PSI, house-cleaning price, junk removal volume pricing (its Christmas tree preset prices the post-holiday pickup rush), the gutter cleaning price per linear foot, which times the ladder work at the height you are actually working and reports the per-foot rate afterwards rather than quoting from someone else’s, and the window cleaning price, which prices the units you counted on the walk round, panes or windows, inside and out, story by story, with screens, tracks and your own job minimum. The estate cleanout pricing calculator prices a multi-day estate cleanout from the sort forward: sorting crew-hours, haul loads with tipping fees, donation drop-offs, and a resale offset rather than a single-visit load fraction. Seasonal add-on work gets the same treatment in the Christmas light installation pricing calculator, which prices roofline linear feet by story along with trees, timers, takedown and storage as one season package built from your own rates, rather than quoting a per-foot figure lifted from a homeowner cost page. Interior work often arrives as one visit covering several trades, and each piece of it prices separately. Drywall priced from your own sheet count, compound, tape and labor hours quotes the hang and the finish, and the painting job price takes over once that wall is ready for coatings. The punch-list items that never become a trade line of their own sit in the handyman visit price, and that is usually the order the same customer asks for the three in. Auto detailing sits on the same sizing spectrum: the ceramic coating pricing calculator prices the paint correction stage, product cost per bottle by vehicle class, layers, and a maintenance-wash plan, splitting the job into the lines a coating customer actually buys. Each one is the honest version of a query the incumbents either gate behind a signup or dress up with authority it doesn’t have. These are rule-of-thumb sizing aids, not engineered designs: the HVAC tool is not a Manual J, the electrical tool is not a substitute for the code authority having jurisdiction, and the chemistry tools defer to the label and safety data sheet. Each shows its formula and the constant it used, with editable defaults and a printable worksheet. What a handyman may legally touch without a contractor license varies by state, with dollar thresholds as different as California’s $1,000 and North Carolina’s $40,000; the handyman license requirements guide walks through the caps and permit conditions for three states.

From the pool side, the pool pump run-time calculator turns gallons, flow rate and target turnovers into daily pump hours, the input a pump energy-cost estimate starts from.

The same jobs, priced outside the US

Several of those jobs, plus winter gritting, are asked in other currencies and other words, so each gets its own page rather than a converted footnote. Canadian gutter work is eavestrough cleaning, the CAD twin of the US gutter cleaning pricing calculator, priced with the provincial sales-tax rate as an input. Australian gutter work prices by the meter, story, tile or metal roof and gutter guard in AUD with GST at 10 percent, and the Australian gutter cleaning pricing calculator prices the pre-bushfire and storm-season clean. The UK gutter cleaning pricing calculator prices by property type in pounds, terraced, semi, detached or bungalow, with gutter vac or ladder method, fascia and conservatory add-ons, and VAT. In the UK the pressure-washing job is a driveway cleaning price in pounds per square meter, and junk removal is rubbish removal, priced per cubic meter or cubic yard with the gate fee and VAT on the face of it, and because a customer’s rubbish is never your own waste, the page’s section on which waste carrier tier you need puts a clearance round at upper tier. Australian operators price the same truck-and-tip work in the Australian rubbish removal calculator. Winter gritting in the UK is bought in 25 kg bags, and the UK grit salt calculator turns an area and a spread rate in grams per square meter into kilograms and bags with a cost in pounds. Same arithmetic, local vocabulary, local currency. When an Australian or New Zealand business closes over Christmas, the Christmas close-down guide for AU and NZ service businesses covers Payday Super deadlines, award shutdown leave rules, the NZ closedown notice and the key dates.

The paperwork that travels with every trade

Two documents sit outside the arithmetic and apply just as widely. Whatever the job, a price is only as solid as the scope of work it was built on, the written list of tasks, areas, and frequency that makes an addition billable rather than assumed. And before a commercial customer, a property manager, or a general contractor lets you on site, they will usually ask to be named as an additional insured on your general liability policy, which is an endorsement to the policy itself rather than the certificate that reports it.

The documents themselves have trade-neutral versions that any service business can start from. A service contract governs a one-off or recurring job, a preventive maintenance agreement governs recurring visits, and a change order covers scope that moves mid-job. The trade-neutral service invoice is the bill, the work order is the dispatch, and the client intake form is the first conversation written down. What you charge off that invoice is set once and kept on a flat-rate price book rather than renegotiated in every driveway.

Cleaning work stacks its own documents on top: a cleaning service contract for standing residential or commercial accounts, a cleaning proposal for the bid that precedes it, an Airbnb cleaning contract for turnover scope with photo documentation and supply restock, and a move-out cleaning checklist for the room-by-room turnover list. Pressure washing has its own contract with a surface-damage clause, and HVAC seasonal work uses the HVAC maintenance checklist to keep a tune-up consistent across technicians.

Two sheets follow the crew rather than the property: a crew timesheet with a federal 40-hour overtime split, and a mileage log with an editable cents-per-mile rate cell. At year-end, every unincorporated subcontractor you paid $2,000 or more for services in 2026 generally gets a 1099-NEC, and the 1099-NEC filing guide for service businesses walks through the threshold, the W-9 step and the February 1, 2027 deadline.

UK operators want the same documents in their own format: the UK service contract template handles VAT and the consumer/business split, and the UK job sheet is the work order in A4 with VAT and client sign-off.

How this hub fits

Think of cross-trade as the foundation under the niche hubs. The rate and overhead figures you set here are the same ones that make a lawn, pool, or pest quote defensible. Set them once, then carry them into whichever job sheet fits the work.

If the business is still an idea rather than a truck, start one step earlier: the business name generator drafts trade-appropriate names with domain and handle hints, so the name on the invoice is settled before any of these numbers go on one.

These calculators are planning aids, estimates to help you decide, not engineering, electrical, tax, or legal advice. Numbers are US-default and should be adjusted to your costs, market, and local codes. Sizing and code-sensitive results defer to a licensed professional and the authority having jurisdiction; chemical mixes defer to the product label and safety data sheet.

Calculators in this topic

Labor Burden Rate Calculator

Trip Charge & Service Call Fee Calculator

Markup vs Margin Converter

Overhead Recovery Rate Calculator

Pool Pump Run Time Calculator

Parts & Material Markup Calculator

HVAC Load & BTU Sizing Calculator

Soft-Wash Mix & Dilution Calculator

Pressure Washing Estimate Calculator

Pressure Washer Nozzle Size Calculator

Driveway Cleaning Price Calculator (UK)

Eavestrough Cleaning Pricing Calculator (Canada)

House Cleaning Price Calculator

Grit Salt Calculator (UK): grams per square metre and 25 kg bags

Air Duct Cleaning Pricing Calculator

Wire Size & Voltage Drop Calculator

Ceramic Coating Pricing Calculator

Roofing Squares & Bundle Calculator

Vehicle Cost-Per-Mile Calculator

Fuel Surcharge Calculator

Junk Removal Volume Pricing Calculator

Rubbish Removal Pricing Calculator (Australia)

Estate Cleanout Pricing Calculator

Work Order Template

Change Order Template

Client Intake Form Template

Preventive Maintenance Agreement Template

Service Invoice Template

HVAC Maintenance Checklist Template

Service Contract Template

UK Service Contract Template

Crew Timesheet Template

Flat Rate Price Book Template

Mileage Log Template

Airbnb Cleaning Contract Template

Cleaning Service Contract Template

Pressure Washing Contract Template

Cleaning Proposal Template

Job Sheet Template UK: free A4 sheet with VAT and client sign-off

Move-Out Cleaning Checklist

Rubbish Removal Cost Calculator (UK)

Hiring Break-Even Calculator: Can You Afford Another Technician?

Christmas Light Installation Pricing Calculator: what to charge per linear foot

Gutter Cleaning Pricing Calculator: What to Charge Per Linear Foot

Window Cleaning Pricing Calculator: Per Pane, Per Window, Per Story

Gutter Cleaning Pricing Calculator (Australia): Bushfire and Storm Season

Gutter Cleaning Pricing Calculator (UK): By Property Type, Ladder or Gutter Vac

FSM Payment Processing Fee Calculator

Business Name Generator for Field-Service Companies

FSM Software True-Cost Calculator

Housecall Pro Pricing Calculator: Your Real All-In Monthly Cost

Jobber Pricing Calculator