Pricing Calculator

This calculator is meant as a guide to help you determine how you should charge for your jobs.

Job Price:
You should charge $0 for this job

Bottom Dollar:
Your bottom dollar is: $0

Job Expenses:
Your job expenses are: $0

How much do you pay per ton to dump:

Pick Up Truck Loads:

How much is metal/donations? (use a decimal):

How many hours will it take:

How many workers (not including yourself):

How much are the workers paid hourly:

How far is the job in miles:

Are there a lot of heavy items (tiles, bricks, concrete, etc.):

How many mattresses:

How many TVs:

Assumptions

Mattresses/TVs cost $35 to recycle
Truck gets 20 miles to the gallon
$3.50/gallon for gas
Travel Speed is 40mph

FAQ

What is the difference between Job Price and Bottom Dollar?

The Job Price is what you should be telling the client the price is for the job and explaining to them that it covers yoru expenses and operating costs so you can provide them with incredible service.
The Bottom Dollar is the absolute lowest you should go if you end up having to negotiate with the client to get the job to go off. Your goal should be to avoid getting close to that number.

Why are the Bottom Dollar and Job Price so much higher than the expenses

This is to account for all the "invisible" costs that go into doing a job, including:

Insurance
Truck Payments and Wear
Marketing Costs to aquire said job
Time to sort, dump, and recycle after the job
Utilities and rent if you have a commercial property

As well as profit for you to make money and reinvest in your business.
You should not being doing jobs even close to at cost most of the time, otherwise you are just running a charity, not a business that is going to improve your life.

How am I supposed to charge people that much?

With confidence. The simple fact of the matter is that in running any businesses, your main role, especially when just starting up, is as a salesman. Convincing people to spend money on your businesses.

If you want clients to pay real prices for your work, you need to be confident in presenting that price to them, and that confidence needs to come from understanding that you are giving them a fair price based on the service you are providing to them and the costs you are incurring.

Clients can smell fear and timidness on you, when you start the conversation off nervous to give them the price of the job, they'll be ready to pounce and tell you how outrageous your price is and make up numbers other comapnies have offered them. And as soon as you start giving in to them, they've won and you know your doing the job for almost no money.

Once you start confidently telling clients your prices you'll see how easily they say "yes" to you. Some will still fight you on it, of course, but not nearly as many as you have built up in your head.

If you need help in selling your jobs or any other facet of your business, please schedule a free call with the owner who has years of experience in the industry and has sold jobs to countless clients.