Profit-leak self-check · 3 minutes

What does a crew hour actually cost you?

Seven numbers you already know — crew, wages, hours, overhead, your rate. This page turns them into the one number most owners have never seen: what an hour on a paying job really costs, and what's left of your rate after it.

Run your numbers The $1,500 diagnostic

Seven numbers, three minutes

The self-check

Pick your trade to prefill starting numbers, then overwrite them with your own. Everything recalculates as you type.

Your numbers never leave this page — everything is computed right here in your browser.

Prefills starting numbers for the trade. Any field you've edited yourself stays put.

People on the crew.

What the average person on the crew makes.

What you actually pay for.

Hours actually on paying jobs — the rest is drive time, shop time, quoting, weather.

Everything that isn't crew wages — trucks, fuel, insurance, phones, software, rent, ads.

What a crew-hour goes out the door at.

Advanced — payroll burden

Payroll taxes, workers comp, unemployment insurance on top of wages. 1.20 means wages plus 20%.

Your result

True loaded cost per billable hour

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Enter your numbers to see where you stand.

This is a seven-input screen. The real diagnostic builds this from your actual invoices, job by job — and finds where it's leaking.

See the $1,500 diagnostic Read a full worked example (PDF)

Why this is only a screen

What this can't see

One blended hour

This screen averages your whole operation into a single hour — one crew, one wage, one rate. That's enough for a gut check. It's too blunt to tell you which jobs are doing the leaking.

The diagnostic reads the jobs

The $1,500 diagnostic builds the same picture from your actual invoices, estimates, and job records — cost and margin job by job, by job type, and by customer. No new software, no data-entry project on your end.

You keep the model

You get the workbook, the written memo, and a one-page summary — the full model, with every number traceable back to your own records. Nothing is a black box.

See the $1,500 diagnostic Read a full worked example (PDF)

This self-check runs on the averages you enter, right in your browser — nothing is saved and nothing is sent anywhere. It's a screen, not a finding. I do job costing and pricing analysis. I am not an accountant, and this is not an audit, a review, or an opinion on your financial statements. If you need those, I'll point you to a CPA.

True cost per billable hour — Enter your numbers