Job Costing & Estimate Calculator — Excel Template for Contractors
Stop guessing your prices. Know your profit on every job — before you quote it.Built for independent contractors, handymen, and trades businesses (HVAC, plumbing, electrical, remodeling, landscaping). If you're pricing jobs from gut feel and finding out at tax time whether you actually made money, this fixes that in 10 minutes.WHAT YOU GET (1 Excel file, works in Excel + Google Sheets):⚡ Estimate Calculator — enter labor hours, materials, and sub costs. Get your suggested price, profit, and deposit amount instantly, based on YOUR target margin. Never underprice a job again.📊 Job Tracker — one row per job. Log actual costs as the job runs and see real profit and margin per job, plus which jobs blew past their estimate.📈 Auto Dashboard — total profit, average margin, win rate, money awaiting payment, and your average estimate overrun. Updates itself.⚙️ Settings tab — set your labor rate, overhead %, material markup, target margin, and deposit % once. Every estimate uses them automatically.WHY CONTRACTORS UNDERPRICE: most forget overhead (truck, insurance, tools, admin) and price for markup when they think they're pricing for margin. This calculator handles both correctly — automatically.HOW IT WORKS:1. Instant download after purchase (no shipping, no waiting)2. Fill in the Settings tab once (5 minutes)3. Price your next job on the Estimate tab4. Track every job in the Tracker — the Dashboard does the restIncludes a Start Here tab with instructions and worked example data so you're never staring at an empty grid.FORMAT: .xlsx — Microsoft Excel 2010+, Google Sheets, LibreOffice, Numbers.INSTANT DIGITAL DOWNLOAD — no physical product will be shipped. Due to the digital nature of the product, all sales are final. For personal / single-business use.⭐ SAVE OVER 50% AT LAUNCH: get all 4 contractor tools in the Contractor Office in a Box bundle — $59 (worth $121 separately). Find it on my profile.
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