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Interactive calculators that do the math your business needs. Set your rate, price your materials, and know your numbers, all free, no signup required.

Business
Labor Rate Calculator

Build your hourly rate from the ground up using your actual costs. Solo tech, small team, or full business owner. Enter your real numbers and get your floor rate, target rate, and billable hour targets.

Solo Team Business Owner
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Field Pricing
Refrigerant Charge Calculator

Enter your cost, amount charged, and markup percentage. Get the exact price to charge your customer with a full cost and margin breakdown. Covers R-22, R-410A, R-454B, and all common refrigerants.

R-410A R-22 All Refrigerants
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Job Analysis
Job Profitability Calculator

Enter your invoice, parts cost, labor hours, and overhead. Get gross profit, margin percentage, and a plain English verdict, healthy, thin, or loss, on any job instantly.

Any Job Type Profit Margin Overhead Helper
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Pricing Reference
Flat Rate Labor Guide

Standard labor hours and suggested price ranges for 50+ residential and commercial HVAC jobs. Enter your hourly rate and every calculated price updates instantly across the entire guide.

Residential Commercial 50+ Jobs
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System Sizing
Manual J Load Calculator

Estimate heating and cooling loads for residential and light commercial spaces. Simple whole-home mode or advanced room-by-room breakdown. Outputs BTU/hr and recommended system size in tons.

Cooling Load Heating Load System Sizing
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Related Reading
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Why Most HVAC Techs Are Undercharging and Don't Even Know It
The article behind the labor rate calculator. Understand the full picture before you run the numbers.
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How to Stop Undercharging Without Losing Your Customers
How to raise your rates in a way that holds, and why losing some customers is the right outcome.
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How to Know If a Job Was Actually Profitable
Revenue and profit are not the same thing. Here is the exact formula for what a job actually earned you.
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