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What should you charge for a plumbing job?

Callout, labour, parts and the after-hours premium — and then the number nobody shows you: what your hour is really worth once the driving, the parts run and the paperwork are counted.

The job

Pre-filled with a typical domestic callout. Change what’s different.

When are you going?
Callout feeWhat you charge to turn up at all
$
Your hourly rate
$
Hours on the jobSpanner in hand — billable only
Parts, what they cost you
$
Your markup on partsSourcing, collecting, warranty, carrying the stock
%

The time nobody pays for

This is the part that decides whether the day was worth getting up for.

Driving, round trip
min
Parts run, waiting, paperworkPer job, on average
min
What an hour of your time costsYour own wage, or the plumber you pay
$
Margin you wantOnly used when working out a price
%
 

 

OverheadsVan, fuel, insurance, phone, office rent, admin — everything you pay whether or not you work  
Everything you pay monthlyNot wages or parts
$
Jobs you do in a month
Winning the workMoney spent to get the phone to ring  
Spent a month getting calls
$
Calls that become jobsIn a month

Your dayHow many of these you fit in  
Jobs like this in a day

Plumbing job — price breakdown

What it costs
The job

Four jobs a day, not one

Your problem isn’t the price. It’s the hours you don’t bill.

A painter has one job for a fortnight. You have four a day, and between them sit the driving, the parts run, the customer who isn’t in, and an invoice you’ll write at nine tonight. None of it is billable and all of it is your day.

  • Jobs dispatched in a sensible order, so you drive less between them
  • Parts and time logged on the job from your phone, not from memory
  • Invoice raised and sent before you’re out of the driveway
  • Card taken on the doorstep — no chasing an emergency callout for a fortnight
  • Out-of-hours rates applied automatically instead of being forgotten
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