The math every job needs, on your phone.
Price a job for the margin you want, turn markup into margin, find what an hour of your work really costs, and how much paint a room takes. Type your own numbers; nothing is sent or saved.
Price a job for the margin you want
Labor and materials in, the price out. Margin is the share of the price you keep; most trades aim for 30 to 50%.
Charge
$1,585
- Your cost$1,030
- You keep$555
- That is a markup of54%
- A 30% deposit would be$475
Price = your cost ÷ (1 − margin). An estimate from your numbers, not advice.
In Jetsy you type your rates once in the Price book, and every quote is priced this way, with your before photos on it and a deposit the customer pays by card. Try it free for 30 days →
Markup and margin are not the same number
A 50% markup keeps only 33% of the price. Type one and see the other.
Price
$1,500
- You keep$500
- Markup50%
- Margin33.3%
Markup is on top of your cost; margin is the share of the price you keep. Margin = markup ÷ (1 + markup).
What an hour of your work really costs
The truck, insurance, phone and software, your own pay and your crew, spread over the hours you can actually bill. Most crews bill 70 to 80% of the hours they work: the rest is driving, estimates and supplies.
Charge at least, per hour of work
$50.24
- Break-even an hour$42.70
- What it all costs a year$184,480
- Hours you can bill a year4,320
Charge = break-even ÷ (1 − profit). Below the break-even, every hour loses money. An estimate from your numbers, not financial advice.
How much paint a room takes
From a painter who has priced rooms for 14 years: walls, doors and windows out, two coats, about 350 square feet a gallon.
Paint to buy
3gallons
- Area to paint365 sq ft
- Labor, one painter4.9 hours
- That is about0.6 8-hour days
A door counts as 21 sq ft and a window as 15. Rounded up to whole gallons; add more for a big color change or a rough surface.
Put those hours and gallons into tool 1 to price the room (paint at about $45 a gallon; change it there). Send them to Price a job ↑
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