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Hourly Rate and Minimum Charge Calculator for Home Service Pros, Excel

A set of connected worksheets that turn your monthly overhead, your take-home goal and your billable hours into an hourly rate, plus a minimum charge for small jobs.

Refund policy

Refunds within 30 days, for any reason. Reply to your receipt and the payment goes back in full. You keep the files; there is nothing to return.

$24

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What it looks like

Cover of Hourly Rate and Minimum Charge Calculator for Home Service Pros, Excel
Dashboard showing the hourly rate, minimum charge, a billable-share comparison table, and two sample job charges.
Your Numbers sheet with the pale yellow input cells for monthly overhead, take-home goal, hours and billable share, and the total overhead formula.
Minimum Charge sheet showing the minimum charge for a job, five small-job examples with their effective hourly rate, and a quote box.
Start Here sheet showing who the tool is for, the eight setup steps, a sheet-by-sheet guide, each sheet's print-area boundary row, and the start of the color legend.

What it does

What you get

Six connected sheets in one Excel workbook that opens cleanly in Google Sheets: a Start Here sheet inside the file with instructions and the disclosure line, plus a separate written Start Here guide.

  • Your Numbers - your monthly overhead lines, your take-home goal, weeks worked, hours available and billable share, with sample numbers for a solo cleaner already filled in.
  • Rate Build - the hourly rate the numbers produce, shown step by step, plus a table comparing the rate at 50, 60, 70 and 80 percent billable.
  • Minimum Charge - trip time, setup time and a minimum on-site time turned into a minimum charge for any job, with five small-job examples and a quote box for pricing a new job on the spot.
  • Scenario - a Current column plus two scenario columns side by side, where each column changes only the input or inputs it is testing: a higher billable share, or an added helper's monthly cost and extra weekly hours.
  • Dashboard - your hourly rate, minimum charge and the billable-share comparison in one place.

Fill in Your Numbers once, and Rate Build, Minimum Charge, Scenario and Dashboard all update from it.

Who it is for

A solo home services operator: a cleaner, landscaper, painter or handyman, working alone or with one or two helpers, who sets their own prices. It is sized for one crew and one set of books, not a multi-location company with several crews and a bookkeeper.

What it is not

This is not accounting, invoicing or scheduling software. It does not connect to your bank, a payment processor or a scheduling app, and it does not track the actual hours you work or send invoices. It does not know your local market rate: you still decide what a fair price is where you work. You update the input cells yourself, and nothing pulls in new numbers on its own. It prices your time, not materials, parts, or taxes.

Refunds

Refunds within 30 days, for any reason. Reply to your receipt and the payment goes back in full. You keep the files; there is nothing to return.