by FantasyLab

Price list Job costs

How much to charge for dump fees on a job

Pass the gate fee through with your markup on it. The True Rate kit's Price Book carries this line as $60 per load in fees and no labor. Set it to what your dump charges. Marked up 25%, it bills $75 per load. Your time for the run goes on its own line, haul-away.

Typical time
no labor per load
Starter hours
0 h per load
Supplies
$60 per load
At $90/hr
$75 per load

Your rate, this price

Sample numbers from the kit's worked example and this task's starter hours. Type over any of them.

Your target rate, rounded up to the next $5. If you don't know it, work it out free or open the box below.
Find my shop rate from six numbers

Same math as the free calculator. (Overhead × 12 + pay) ÷ billable hours, then ÷ (1 − margin), rounded up to the next $5.

This task, priced

Flat price$75 Hours × rate, plus supplies marked up 25%, rounded up to the next $5.
Labor$0
Supplies, marked up 25%$75
As a one-task job$195 Trip charge $35, 5% contingency, brought up to the $195 minimum. These are the kit's starter settings.

This is an estimate from the numbers above, not a quote. Materials and fixtures the customer picks (the faucet, the fan, the door) bill separately at your materials markup.

Price this job and copy the text

What gets left off this estimate

These are the lines from the kit's "Did you forget?" list that apply to this job, and where the kit bills each one.

  • Taking out and hauling the old fixture. Price Book: Haul-away line.
  • Supply-house runs. Price Book: Materials pickup run. An hour a trip is normal.
  • "While you're here…" extras. Don't do them free. Text a change order first (Get Paid Texts, #1).

Price Book note. Gate fee. Set it to what your dump charges.

Before you send the number

  • Call the dump before you quote. Some take certain materials and some don't.
  • Ask what's in the load. Paint, tires or appliances can cost more to drop off.
  • Keep the receipt from the gate. It makes the line easy to explain.

Starting points, not a price list to copy

These numbers are the True Rate kit's starter hours and supplies for a solo tradesperson with a few years in, on an ordinary house. They aren't industry data, a survey of what others charge, or a promise of how long the job takes you. Edit the hours for your market and your own speed. An old house, a seized nut or a fussy customer changes the job.

The $90 shop rate is only the kit's worked example ($2,870 a month overhead, $60,000 pay goal, 62% of hours billable, 20% margin). Your rate comes from your costs.

Does that include a trip charge or minimum?

No. The flat price is the task alone. In the kit's Price This Job sheet, a ticket with only this task adds a $35 trip charge and a 5% contingency, then brings it up to the $195 minimum job charge. At $90 an hour, that's $195 for this task on its own. Those are the kit's starter settings. Set your own.

Where do these hours come from?

They're the True Rate kit's starter hours for a solo tradesperson with a few years in, working on an ordinary house. That's tools out, the work, and clean-up. Drive time isn't in them. They're not industry data or a survey of your market. Old houses and tight spaces take longer, so log your real times and edit them.

Price the whole ticket

The True Rate kit is a spreadsheet that prices all 80 jobs from your own rate. Its Price This Job sheet adds materials, the trip charge and the minimum, and shows your margin before you send the number. $39 once, for Google Sheets or Excel.

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