FREE PROFIT CALCULATOR
How it works
- Margin: selling price less your project costs
- Tell us your selling price or your desired margin
- Labor = hourly rate × hours worked
- Direct costs = labor + materials + any cost related to your project
What project are you pricing? Tell me your costs and what you'd like to charge (or your target margin) and I'll work out your numbers.
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One project at a time, nothing saved.
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See how Profit Helper works →This tool provides estimates for guidance only. You are responsible for verifying your own figures and pricing decisions. SiteSpend is not liable for business decisions made using these estimates.
Questions
Project costing questions, answered
- Multiply each crew member's hours by their hourly rate, then add those totals together — that's your labor cost. This calculator does it automatically for up to 6 crew members, so you just type hours and hourly rate for each person.
- Typical reported gross margins are around 25–40% for landscaping, 30–45% for HVAC, and 35–50% for electrical work. These vary a lot by market, project type, and overhead, so treat them as a reference point rather than a rule.
- Yes. It is free to use, no card is required, and your results appear on screen.
- It works out labour, materials, total cost, profit and margin instantly, without you building formulas.
- No. Your results appear as you type. Enter your email only if you want to start the 30-day Profit Helper trial.
- Your calculator figures are not saved. If you start a Profit Helper trial, we use your email to create and support your account as described in our Privacy Policy. We do not sell your information.