JobCostLab

JobCostLab makes pricing and job-costing spreadsheets for small contractors - the people who run the crew and write the bids themselves.

Most trade businesses price by feel. They add a percentage to what they think a job will cost, and then the overhead, the drive time and the dump fees quietly eat the margin. A job that felt like a good day turns out to have paid less than staying home.

These tools do that arithmetic properly. You enter your real rates once - wages and burden, equipment cost per hour, fuel, dump fees, and the monthly overhead that gets paid whether or not you are working. After that, every bid tells you your true cost, your break-even, the minimum you can accept, and the price that actually hits the margin you set.

They also show you revenue and profit per crew hour, because two jobs at the same price are not the same job if one ties up your crew twice as long.

No subscription, no login, no monthly fee. Download it once and it is yours, and it keeps working offline in Excel or in your browser with Google Sheets.

If something does not work the way you expect, send a message. Fixing it is faster than fighting a spreadsheet.