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What will you make
on this job?

Check a quote’s profit or work out a price from your target margin. Include the travel, quoting and paperwork that happen around the work on site.

All figures are in pounds, excluding VAT. Your figures stay in this browser tab; this tool does not save or send them.

The total you would charge the customer, before VAT.
1. Include your own time

Use a cost or pay allowance for your time, not your customer charge-out rate. Business profit is calculated after this allowance.

Use the same hourly basis for the three time categories below.
Your own on-site hours only.
Keep these hours separate from time on site.
Your messages, quoting, invoicing and paperwork time.
2. Add the rest of the job costs

Enter 0 for a cost you are deliberately excluding. Add each cost once. Use figures on a consistent ex-VAT basis; include VAT you cannot recover as part of your costs.

Purchase cost, not the price you charge the customer.
Total cost for other people, including relevant employment costs. Exclude your time above.
For example fuel, parking, hire, skips and permits.
This job’s share of fixed costs, only if not already included elsewhere.

Enter your figures, then calculate. Results are planning estimates, not a tax or take-home pay calculation.

How to calculate job profit

Job profit = selling price − total job costs. Your time is a cost too: include the on-site work, travel and admin. Use actual costs for a completed job, or estimates when preparing a quote.

Margin = profit ÷ selling price × 100. To calculate a price for a target margin, divide the total cost by (1 − margin ÷ 100). For example, a 25% margin requires dividing cost by 0.75, not adding 25%.

This calculator rounds each labour category to the nearest penny. A target quote is rounded up to the next penny so it meets the entered margin.

A fictional £800 quote

Imagine 8 hours on site, 1 hour travelling and 2 hours on admin, valued at £25 an hour: £275 for your time. Add £200 materials, £25 other costs and £50 overhead. The entered job cost is £550.

At an £800 selling price, estimated profit is £250 and margin is 31.25%. If costs rise by 10% to £605, profit falls to £195. These are illustrative figures, not trade averages or a recommended price.

Keep the estimate useful

  • Keep margin and markup separate. Adding 25% to £550 produces £687.50: a 20% margin, not 25%.
  • Count costs once. If an hourly rate already includes overheads, do not allocate those overheads again.
  • Include all the people. Add your own hours above and other workers’ total costs separately.
  • Check what is missing. Review visits, collection trips, waste, approved extras and paperwork can all affect the final result.
  • Use a consistent VAT basis. Sales are before VAT. Costs should include any VAT you cannot recover. This tool does not calculate VAT, CIS, National Insurance or tax liability.

Which part takes up your evening?

Pricing is easier when customer details, agreed work and job costs are together. If gathering messages, preparing quotes or assembling invoices takes the time, start by mapping that handover.

Explore three illustrative admin workflows, keep one customer record, or use our quote follow-up templates.

Contact us

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Help shape MMD

Start with a free 15-minute conversation about the admin taking up your evenings. If there is a fit, choose Callback alone or add enquiry, quote and payment follow-up.

Discuss a paid pilot

From £49 for 30 days + £49 standard setup (£98 first payment), before any applicable VAT. Starts on activation. Continuing after day 30 needs your explicit agreement. No obligation to buy or join a mailing list.

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Privacy and offer details

With your analytics permission, MMD also counts completed admin-estimator calculations by day and broad weekly time-saving range. The estimator does not send entered figures, contact details or a visitor identifier. These aggregate counts describe tool use and assumptions, not verified savings. Our hosting provider still processes ordinary request metadata; hashed network counters are used briefly for rate limiting. Google receives the named calculation event. Rejecting analytics keeps this optional measurement off; the calculator still works.

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The paid pilot lasts 30 days from activation. Callback costs £49; Callback with either Enquiry & quote follow-up or Invoice & payment reminders costs £68; Callback with both additions costs £87. There is one £49 standard setup fee, making the first payment £98, £117 or £136 respectively. Prices are before any applicable VAT. Standard setup covers compatibility checks, standard configuration, message templates, testing and a handover, with up to one hour of setup time. We confirm availability, compatibility, scope and costs before you agree to start. Each addition includes 50 outgoing SMS segments per service month and normal customer replies. Long texts can use more than one segment. We notify you before the limit and pause additional automated messages at the cap. A £10 prepaid top-up for 100 outgoing segments needs your approval; no automatic overage charges. At day 30 you explicitly choose whether to continue at the same monthly price, held for your first three months. After that agreement, the service renews monthly; you can cancel the next renewal through the billing portal or by contacting us. If you do not continue, we agree how to return call handling to its previous setup. Existing customers pay £19/month per addition and one £49 setup fee to configure one or both additions. Custom integrations are scoped and quoted separately, with third-party fees and any maintenance agreed before work starts. Research participation, marketing and analytics are separate choices. Honest feedback is welcome; no positive review is required and the initial conversation carries no obligation to buy. Callback includes up to 20 voicemail messages or 20 processing minutes per service month, whichever is reached first, for one business number. Each message is counted separately and its duration is rounded up to a whole processing minute: a 20-second message uses 1 minute; a 61-second message uses 2. Messages are limited to 2 minutes. Unused allowance does not roll over. We confirm activation and reset dates, and how calls are handled at the limit, before activation. Extra callback usage must be agreed separately; there are no automatic paid top-ups.

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