Business Calculators

By Muhammet Çay

START

• startup cost — Estimate startup categories, monthly overhead, and break-even jobs.
• tool startup cost — Find what equipment spending remains after owned items.

OPERATE

• monthly expense — Add recurring costs and annualize the monthly total.
• employee true cost — Combine wages, payroll taxes, benefits, and insurance.
• service van cost — Spread a van purchase over useful life and add running costs.
• commercial vehicle cost — Include registration in a commercial vehicle cost plan.
• insurance cost — Add three monthly premiums and annualize the result.
• overhead percent — Measure overhead as a share of revenue.

PRICE

• contractor hourly rate — Turn income, overhead, hours, and profit target into an hourly rate.
• labor rate — Load a wage with burden, overhead, and profit.
• job pricing — Turn materials, labor, and overhead into a margin-based quote.
• markup vs margin — Convert a cost markup into price, profit, and margin.
• electrician hourly rate — Plan an electrical service hourly rate.
• plumbing job pricing — Build a plumbing quote from direct and allocated costs.
• roofing labor cost — Find a roofing labor hour cost and selling rate.
• landscaping job pricing — Build a landscaping quote from costs and target margin.
• pressure washing pricing — Price a surface area from cost per square foot.

PROFIT

• break even — Find the whole jobs needed to cover fixed monthly cost.
• profit margin — Measure profit and margin from revenue and total cost.
• revenue goal — Find sales required to cover target income and overhead.
• jobs needed — Convert a revenue goal into a whole-job count.
• hvac profit margin — Measure HVAC profit from matched revenue and costs.

Start with costs you can document, then test different workload and price assumptions. See calculator methodology for formulas and source datasets for the underlying research.

Last updated: September 26, 2026