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Enter your costs and get your recommended price, profit and hourly return.

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Currency

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How many jobs do you need to stop losing money?

Your break-even point comes from the costs you pay every month. Fill in the vehicle operating cost (step 2), depreciation (step 6) or your business fixed costs (step 5) and it will appear here.

Your month at this price

40 jobs a month at calculated price of $1.58.

Revenue
$63.20
Variable costsProducts, fuel and variables: they only exist if you do the work.
− $38.00
Contribution margin
$25.20
Costs for the monthVehicle $0.00 · Depreciation $0.00 · Business fixed $0.00
− $0.00
Profit for the month
$25.20
Per job
$0.63
Margin for the month
39.9%
Per hour worked
$0.25
Capacity used
60%

80 h of 134 billable h

How much do you want to earn a month?
USD

What you want left over after paying for everything.

Enter how much you want to earn a month and I'll tell you how many jobs you need at calculated price of $1.58 — and whether they fit in the month.

What if…?

Each row moves one thing and leaves everything else alone. Adjust the percentage with the buttons to try your own scenario. Your price does not readjust when a cost goes up: that is how you see how much the price you charge today can take. Right now you make $25.20 per month. With Plot you send up to 3 scenarios to the cash chart below.

What you decideAdjustmentDifferenceProfit for the monthChart
  • You raise the price10%Difference: +$6.32Profit for the month: $31.52
  • You lower the price10%Difference: -$6.32Profit for the month: $18.88
  • You do more jobs20%Difference: +$5.04Profit for the month: $30.24
  • You do fewer jobs20%Difference: -$5.04Profit for the month: $20.16
What can come at youAdjustmentDifferenceProfit for the monthChart
  • Product costs go up20%Difference: $0.00Profit for the month: $25.20
  • Fuel goes up20%Difference: -$7.60Profit for the month: $17.60
  • Vehicle operating cost goes up10%Difference: $0.00Profit for the month: $25.20
  • Business fixed costs go up10%Difference: $0.00Profit for the month: $25.20
If you growAdjustmentDifferenceProfit for the monthChart
  • You add another vehicleYou pay the step 2 operating cost and the step 6 depreciation all over again, and you double your capacity.
    Difference: +$25.20Profit for the month: $50.40
    Extra jobs per month with the new unit. It starts by doubling your volume; with two units you can fit 134 per month, so you can add up to 94.
Your cash over six months

Each line is the money you have accumulated month by month if that scenario holds. At the calculated price of $1.58 and 40 jobs a month, over six months you build $151.20. To compare scenarios, press Plot on the rows of "What if…?", just above.

Today
Today's monthly profit
$25.20
Your 6-month cash, today
$151.20
Best of those plotted
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Difference vs today
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Each line assumes that scenario holds for all six months and that the month's cash accumulates as is: it does not deduct taxes, drawings or the upfront cost of buying the unit.

Your service catalogue

Add the other services you sell and split the month across all of them. Vehicle costs, assets and business overheads are spread by hours: a 4 h job carries four times what a 1 h job does. Each service also carries the same travel and variable costs from steps 4 and 5; what changes are the hours and the products.

Your main service

From steps 1 to 62 h · 40 per month · $0.00 in products

Cost $0.95·Price at your 40% margin $1.58·$0.32 per hour·$25.33 per month

Hours in the month
80 h
Of your capacity
60%
Revenue for the month
$63.33
Profit for the month
$25.33
Plans & packages

A flat fee or a prepaid bundle change what you keep per job. Here you see how much discount you are really giving and, above all, how many uses each plan can take before it stops being profitable. The jobs in plans add to the catalogue volumes: do not count them twice.

You don't have any plans yet. Add a monthly subscription or a multi-service package to see what they leave you.

Calculated price$1.58

Calculated price

$1.58

Total cost
$0.95
Profit
$0.63
Margin
39.9%
Total time
2.50 h
Profit per hour
$0.25

Profitable service

Your price delivers a healthy margin.

Your profit margin
Healthy
0%20%35%95%
%

A solid margin for a mobile service, which saves on premises and can sustain it: it covers costs, absorbs surprises and leaves room to grow.

Margin is the share of the price that is profit (profit / price), unlike markup (profit / cost). Here it is measured against your total cost, which already includes labour, products, travel and your business overheads.

%

VAT or any tax you charge the customer. It is added on top of the final price: it is not yours, so it changes neither your profit nor your margin.

Choose your price

Pick the price you want to analyse. The breakdown and the break-even point update with your choice.

Your real cost
Operating cost$0.00
Depreciation$0.00
Products & supplies$0.00
Travel$0.95
Variable costs$0.00
Fixed costs$0.00
Total cost$0.95
Where does your price come from?
Price$1.58
  • Travel$0.9560%
  • Profit$0.6340%

Service quote

Generated with SAFFI — 9/17/2026

Price$1.58
  • Travel$0.9560%
  • Profit$0.6340%

Real cost

Operating cost$0.00
Depreciation$0.00
Products & supplies$0.00
Travel$0.95
Variable costs$0.00
Fixed costs$0.00
Total cost$0.95

Price and return

Calculated price$1.58
Profit$0.63
Margin39.9%
Total time2.50 h
Profit per hour$0.25

Other reference prices

Minimum price$1.06
Premium price$2.38

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