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Nine calculators for the numbers that decide whether a business makes money, a NOAA hail lookup, and a Google review link generator. No account. Calculator numbers never leave your browser; the lookups send only what you search, and we do not tie it to you.
Compare the hours and costs you quoted against what the job actually took.
Convert between the two, and find the markup that lands the margin you want.
Work back from the take-home you want, your overhead, and the hours you can actually bill.
A payment schedule from a job total - deposit, progress draw, and balance, the three payments you will actually collect.
Load payroll taxes, comp, benefits, and paid time off into the true hourly cost of a crew member.
Trade-by-trade launch costs, the monthly bills that start on day one, and your runway.
Fixed costs divided by what a job really contributes - the first number a new business should know.
The all-in monthly cost, the cost on every job, and the extra jobs a month that carry it.
The profit that truly replaces a W2 - benefits and self-employment tax included.
Every hail report NOAA recorded near an address or ZIP since 2006, with sizes, dates, distance, a map and a printable PDF.
Find your review link, then get a QR code, a printable sign, and review cards.
These are not generic finance calculators with a contractor label on them. Each one works the way the number actually behaves on a job: markup measured against cost and margin against price, billable hours rather than hours worked, and a payment schedule whose rows always add up to the job total.
They are also the free preview of settings that live inside FastEstimateMaker. The rate you work out here is the labor rate an estimate uses. The markup is the one applied to recorded costs. The deposit and draw become real scheduled payments on an invoice. Work it out here first, then start free and the number is waiting where the work happens.
For per-trade pricing benchmarks - what handymen, roofers, painters, and eight other trades actually charge - see the pricing guides. For how the estimate, follow-up, and invoice fit together, see the feature tour.
FastEstimateMaker builds a branded estimate from voice, a text, or a forwarded email in about a minute, follows up automatically, and gets you paid. Start free - no credit card required.
Build a real estimate freeSolo is $29.99/month with every office feature. Canvass is $59.99/month plus $19.99/month per rep seat.
