How to price handyman jobs is a question with one honest answer and a hundred tables pretending to be it. The tables tell you what other handymen charge; the answer is what your hour has to bring in and how many hours the job takes. How to price jobs as a handyman, how much to charge as a handyman and how much can a handyman charge per job all come back to the same arithmetic: your costs into a rate, the punch list into hours, materials at cost with a markup, the trip charge on its own line. The tools on this site do it from your figures and publish no market rate.
Build the rate before you price the job
How much to charge as a handyman starts with the year's fixed costs, the truck, insurance, tools, phone and software, plus the wage you want, divided by the hours you will actually bill once driving and quoting are taken out. That number is your rate, and every job is priced from it. Copy a rate from a table and you have adopted someone else's costs.
Put hours against each task
How to price handyman jobs on a punch list: hours per task, at your rate, with the tasks listed so the customer sees six small prices rather than one large one. The work order tool on this site turns the list into hours; the customer can drop a task and watch the price move.
Materials, the trip charge and the minimum
Materials at cost with the markup as one line, sales tax on the materials where your state charges it, the trip charge on its own line for the drive and the walk-through, and a minimum stated in hours. On the quote tool's worked example, three hours at $75 is $225 of labor, $85 of materials marked up comes to $102, the trip charge is $35 and sales tax is charged on the materials only, and the deposit to book is shown beneath the total.
How much can a handyman charge per job
As much as the hours at your rate plus materials and the trip come to, and no less, because a job priced below that is paid for out of your wage. Write the deposit beneath the total and the balance due on the invoice. From the vendor's own pricing page, Jobber Core is $49 per month billed month to month and includes one user, each additional user is $29 per month, and Jobber Connect is $139 per month. PunchListWorks Pro is $49 per month for the whole crew, and every tool on this site works free with no account.
Questions people ask about how to price handyman jobs
How do I price jobs as a handyman without a market rate?
From your own costs: fixed costs plus the wage you want, divided by billable hours, gives the rate; hours per task at that rate plus materials and the trip charge gives the job.
How much should I charge as a handyman for a small job?
The minimum in hours at your rate plus the trip charge. The trip charge is what keeps the ten-minute fix from losing money.
Is there a free tool for pricing handyman jobs?
Yes. The handyman quote on this site prices the visit from your hours, rate, materials, markup and trip charge on the page, with no account.