Service Pricing Calculator

The buffer is a target margin. Your hourly earnings are included in cost.

Your numbers

Enter your numbers to see the result.

How Service Pricing works

Add hours times hourly earnings to direct service costs. Divide this total by one minus percentage fees and the target-margin buffer to find the service price.

A worked example

These sample values illustrate the calculation. Use your own numbers in the calculator for your result.

Example inputs
Hours required
4
Desired hourly earnings
40
Materials
25
Travel
10
Overhead
20
Payment fee %
3
Profit buffer %
15
Target service price
$262.20
Profit after entered costs
$39.33
Effective hourly earnings
$49.83

Assumptions and limits

The buffer is a target margin. Your hourly earnings are included in cost.

Planning estimate only. This is not legal, tax, payroll or accounting advice.