Free · no sign-up

Flat rate, built from your costs.

Put in what you pay yourself, your overhead and your billable hours. Get the hourly rate you actually need and a flat price for 37 residential plumbing jobs, each checked against what the market is paying in 2026.

Build my price book See the 2026 rates

Plumber kneeling at a water heater with the old tank on a hand truck, two-ink print

The price book builder

Your numbers in, your flat rates out.

Defaults are a solo residential service plumber. 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, $/monthVan, insurance, phone, software, tools, ads Billable hours / monthSolo service: 100–125. Not hours worked Target net margin %10–20% after everything Material markup %Most shops 2× cost on T&M; 40% is conservative Service / trip fee, $Added once per job. $60–230 published 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 answer on the plumbing forums is “double what I made at the shop.” Your rate has to carry burden, the van, insurance, the phone, the software, the unbillable hours and a margin. At 110 billable hours a month and $3,000 of overhead, a $36 wage needs $90 an hour before you've made a dollar of profit.

Wage × (1 + burden)$45.00

+ overhead ÷ billable hours$27.27

= break-even$72.27

÷ (1 − 20% margin) = loaded rate$90.34

Plumber at the open side door of a van stocked with hose reels and fittings

$85 service fee + $140/hrA real shop's numbers from a 2026 trade-forum thread titled Flat rate or T&M?, and they were still asking whether it was enough. The builder answers that in thirty seconds.

Flat rate for installs. Hourly for the mystery.

A toilet, a disposal, a 50-gallon heater: you've done each a hundred times, so price them flat and get paid for being fast. A leak you can't see yet is time and materials, first hour at a premium, and you say so before you start. The book has both columns, customer-supplied and you-supplied, because the margin is in the second one.

50-gal tank, you supply, 3 h + $850 parts$1,465

At $90/h and 40% markup, plus trip$1,555 ticket

Market band (Keeley's 2022 book)$1,500–2,400

Plumber lying under a kitchen sink fitting a disposal

$1,555That ticket is at the bottom of the band. Most shops run 2× on materials, not 1.4×. Slide the markup to 75% and the same job is $1,850, still inside the band. That's the conversation the builder is for.

Two columns: they supply, or you supply.

A customer-supplied faucet is labor plus a trip. A faucet you supply is labor, the part at markup, the supply-house run, the warranty and the stock on the van. Quote both, say which is which, and stop eating the difference when the box from the big-box store turns out to be missing a part.

Kitchen faucet, customer-supplied$135

Toilet, customer-supplied$175

Toilet, you supply standard 1.28 gpf$445

PEX coil, fittings, a stop valve, a fill valve, a flapper, a P-trap, a pipe wrench and a clipboard

$300–500What a disposal costs you at the supply house. Published install totals are $450–850. The part is your profit line, not a pass-through.

Plumber Pricing Kit

The same price book, in a spreadsheet you own.

Price book builder (Excel, Numbers, Google Sheets) — your numbers saved, 37 residential jobs pre-loaded with hours and materials, customer-supplied and you-supplied columns, every cell editable.
Job quote tab — pick jobs, set quantities, add permit and trip fee, 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 van or the customer.
Quote template — one page, scope, exclusions, terms and a signature line.
Price-objection scripts — “the other guy said $150”, “that's a lot for an hour”, “I bought the heater at the big-box store”, “can you skip the permit”, and four more.

$49

One-time. Instant download. Rate card updates for 12 months. Get the Pricing Kit

Checkout by Lemon Squeezy. 30-day refund if it doesn't help you price your next job.