Free job quote calculator
Undercharging is how good trades go broke. Enter your labor, materials and the margins your business needs, and get a clean quote with every layer worked out: markup, overhead, profit and tax. Everything stays in your browser.
A professional quote template you can hand a client, clear deposit terms, and a simple works contract that protects you on scope, payment and changes.
Most trades quote labor plus materials and call it a day. That covers your costs on that one job but leaves nothing for the parts of running a business that do not show up on a single invoice. The fix is to build the quote in layers.
Start with labor (hours times your rate times how many people are on site) and materials with a markup (you carry the cost, the risk and the warranty, so parts are worth more to the client than what you paid). That is your subtotal. On top of it, overhead recovers fixed costs like your van, insurance, phone and admin time spread across all your jobs. Then profit is what the business genuinely keeps, separate from your wages as the person on the tools. Tax or VAT goes on last, on the full price.
The numbers here are a starting point. Tune the percentages to your own business, then use the total as your floor and quote with confidence.