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Stop pricing like you're on the clock.

Put in what you pay yourself, your overhead and your billable hours. Get the hourly rate you actually need and a flat price for 35 residential jobs, each checked against what the market is paying in 2026.

Build my price book See the 2026 rates

$73Break-even per billable hour. Bill under this and you pay to work.

$91Loaded rate at your target margin. This is the number in your price book.

3 of 35Jobs priced below the market band at the default numbers.

$210Ceiling fan at that rate. Market is $312–580. See the problem.

The price book builder

Your numbers in, your flat rates out.

Defaults are a solo residential service electrician. Change them and everything recalculates.

Your numbers

Your wage, $/hourWhat you pay yourself or your tech Payroll burden %Taxes, comp, benefits. 20–30% typical Overhead, $/monthTruck, insurance, phone, software, tools, ads Billable hours / monthSolo service: 100–125. Not hours worked Target net margin %10–20% after everything Material markup %30–50% typical; small parts higher Service / trip fee, $Added once per job. $79–200 is normal Region multiplierBenchmarks only. NE/West 1.15–1.3, rural 0.8

$0Your loaded labor cost per hour (wage + burden)

$0Overhead recovered per billable hour

$0Break-even rate. Your floor.

$0Your loaded hourly rate at target margin

Your flat-rate price book (enter a quantity to build a quote)

Job	Hrs	Materials	Your flat price	2026 market	Check	Qty

Hours and material costs are planning estimates — overwrite them with yours in the kit. Market ranges are homeowner-facing national figures from public guides, dated on the rate guide. “Below” means a one-job ticket at your numbers lands under the band. This is cost recovery, not pricing advice.

Your hourly rate is not your wage.

The most common mistake on every electrician forum is quoting “my wage times two.” Your rate has to carry burden, the truck, insurance, the phone, the software, the unbillable hours, and a margin. At 110 billable hours a month and $2,800 of overhead, a $38 wage needs $91 an hour before you've made a dollar of profit.

Wage × (1 + burden)$47.50

+ overhead ÷ billable hours$25.45

= break-even$72.95

÷ (1 − 20% margin) = loaded rate$91.19

$55/hA real number from r/electricians: “I make $38 at my job so I charge $55 for side jobs.” At a 4-hour minimum that's $220 before materials, and it doesn't cover a truck.

Flat rate, built from your costs.

Customers want one number and you want a repeatable method. A flat rate is hours × your loaded rate, plus materials at markup, plus the trip fee. Build it once for the 35 jobs you actually do and you never quote from a guess again. If your number lands under the market band, that's information about your costs, not a reason to charge less.

Recessed can, existing ceiling0.9 h + $35

At $91/h and 35% markup$130 each

Market band (HomeGuide 2025)$125–300

$780Six cans and two dimmers at the default numbers, plus an $89 trip fee. The market band for that ticket is $750–1,800. Room to move up, none to move down.

Materials are a profit line, not a pass-through.

Thirty percent is the forum consensus. A lot of shops run 50%, and small parts go 100–300% because the trip to the supply house costs more than the part. If you're marking up at zero because “it feels fair,” the breaker you drove across town for cost you money.

Forum consensus markup30%

Common for service shops50%

Small parts100–300%

$1,200 → $1,620Panel materials for a 200A upgrade at 35% markup. The $420 is your supply-house time, your stock, and your risk.

Electrician Pricing Kit

The same price book, in a spreadsheet you own.

Price book builder (Excel, Numbers, Google Sheets) — your numbers saved, 35 residential jobs pre-loaded with hours and materials, every cell editable, add your own jobs.
Job quote tab — pick jobs, set quantities, get the ticket with trip fee and permit, plus a job log that tracks quoted vs. won and actual hours.
2026 rate card — the market bands for every job, dated and sourced, one printable page.
Printable price list — your flat rates formatted for the truck or the customer, generated from the builder.
Quote template — one page, with scope, exclusions, terms and a signature line.
Price-objection scripts — “the other guy said $150”, “that's a lot for an hour”, “can you do it T&M”, “my cousin's an electrician”, and four more.

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