Business Calculators
The trade calculators tell you what to charge. These tell you everything else — whether you're actually profitable, what an employee really costs, when a machine pays for itself, and how many jobs stand between you and a real paycheck. Same honest math, full breakdown on every answer.
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How many jobs until you're profitable 📈Profit Margin Calculator
Margin, profit, and the price for a target 🏷️Markup Calculator
Price from cost — and the margin it really gives ⏱️Hourly Rate Calculator
What to charge per hour, based on billable time 👷Labor Burden Calculator
What an employee really costs per hour 🚀Business Startup Cost Calculator
The real cash it takes to open the doors ⚙️Equipment ROI Calculator
When a machine pays for itself 🚚Truck Operating Cost Calculator
What your work truck really costs per mile 💵Cash Flow Calculator
Profitable on paper — but is the cash there?
Coming next
We're building these one at a time, with the same standard as the trade calculators — real math, full breakdowns, and a page that actually teaches the concept. Check back, or suggest what you need first from the homepage.
- Overtime Calculator
- Material Markup Calculator
- Fuel Cost Calculator
- Employee Cost Calculator
- Payroll Tax Calculator
- Equipment Depreciation Calculator
- Job Cost Calculator
- Estimate vs Actual Calculator
- Quote Profit Calculator
- Service Call Pricing Calculator
- Route Density Calculator
- Inventory Markup Calculator
- Contractor Overhead Calculator
- Invoice Late Fee Calculator
- Sales Commission Calculator
Why these live next to the pricing calculators
Pricing a job right is half the battle. The other half is knowing whether the business underneath the jobs is healthy — and that's where most owners fly blind. You can charge the right price on every job and still lose money because your overhead grew, an employee costs more than you think, or a truck is quietly eating the profit from an entire route.
These calculators use the same philosophy as everything else on this site: your real numbers in, the honest answer out, and the full math shown so you learn the concept — not just the result. If a number looks bad, the tool tells you straight, because a comfortable lie on a calculator becomes an expensive surprise on a bank statement.