SPRAY & SHINE

Job calculator

1Measure it

Only for driveways, paths and patios. Skip this for fences and bins.

Length ft  or  paces
Width ft  or  paces
= 0 sq ft
What is it?

2What's in the job?

Tap + and − . Sizes you measured land here automatically.

3Is it filthy?

4The numbers

Both of you work the whole job, so every hour counts twice.

Break even $0gas, soap, wear
Floor price $0never below this
Job price $0what you charge
Add something above and the numbers fill in.

5Say this

Change prices
These are dollars. 0.10 means ten cents per square foot, so a 1,000 sq ft driveway is $100. Changes last until you close the page — for a permanent change, update the shared spreadsheet.

What each job costs you

Change any number if you work out the real figure.

Every job costs about$0
These numbers feed the break even and floor price on the pricing screen, worked out for the actual job in front of you. The floor is these costs plus California minimum wage ($16.90/hr) for each of you.

The gear

Spread over about 300 hours of use, the gear costs roughly $1.46 an hour. That's already counted in the job costs above.
Charge them $0
–Add something above