Service Pricing Calculator

Service price = (estimated time × hourly cost + extra expenses) / (1 − margin%). The calculator first computes total cost, then applies mark-up margin.

Products are priced from unit cost plus fixed costs spread over sales volume. Services have no production volume — what matters is the time spent on a specific job.

If you sell a physical good in repeatable volume, use the product pricing calculator, which spreads fixed costs across planned sales.

Hourly cost is your real cost of work, not a market rate. To find your full internal hourly cost, use the company hourly cost calculator.

Materials used, equipment rental, subcontractors, travel, one-off licences. Fixed business costs are better folded into the hourly cost.

One-off and project services usually carry higher margins than goods — often 25–50% — to cover estimation risk and downtime between jobs.

Estimate from similar past jobs and add a 15–25% buffer for unforeseen difficulties. Underestimating time is the most common cause of losses.

No — the calculator works with net prices. Add the applicable VAT rate to get the gross client price.

It's the client price divided by estimated hours — showing what you actually earn per hour after margin.

This calculator prices a single job. For recurring monthly work, estimate average monthly hours and price it as one project.