A cleaner way to work through the numbers
Use the calculators in order when you are rebuilding pricing, then jump directly to the tool you need for day-to-day decisions.
Run a more profitable trade business.
Hourly Rate Calculator
Calculate your honest hourly rate by factoring in all expenses, capacity constraints, and profit margins. Includes work schedule, operating expenses, growth investments, and daily break-even analysis. Perfect for plumbers, HVAC technicians, electricians, and all service trades.
- Work schedule & capacity planning
- Comprehensive expense tracking (personnel, vehicles, insurance, etc.)
- Growth expense calculations
Job Pricing Calculator
Build accurate job quotes by calculating material costs, labor hours, equipment usage, and overhead. Ensure profitable pricing on every project.
- Material cost tracking
- Labor hour estimation
- Equipment and overhead allocation
Profit & Loss Calculator
Monitor your business financial health with detailed P&L tracking. Calculate gross profit, operating profit, and net profit margins to understand your bottom line.
- Revenue and expense tracking
- Gross profit margin calculation
- Operating profit analysis
Commission Calculator
Design fair and motivating commission structures for your sales team and technicians. Calculate tiered commissions, bonuses, and performance-based pay.
- Tiered commission structures
- Sales performance bonuses
- Technician incentive pay
Break-Even Calculator
Determine your break-even point to understand the minimum revenue needed to cover all fixed and variable costs. Plan for profitability and growth.
- Fixed cost analysis
- Variable cost per unit
- Break-even point in units and dollars
Industry Pricing Standards
Access industry-specific pricing data and benchmarks. Compare your rates to regional and national averages to ensure competitive pricing.
- Trade-specific pricing data (HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical)
- Regional market comparisons
- Service call and labor rate benchmarks
Built for the decisions crews make every week.
Service calls
Set call fees, diagnostic rates, and minimum charges without guessing.
Replacement work
Model larger jobs with labor hours, material exposure, and approval-ready financing assumptions.
Sales teams
Use commission calculators to keep sales incentives tied to margin discipline.
Owner reviews
Review P&L and break-even numbers before adding crews, trucks, or new service categories.
Turn the math into a workflow.
The calculators help set the decision. Thorbis helps the office reuse that decision in estimates, invoices, and owner reporting.
Estimate
Move from calculator math to estimate templates with labor, material, overhead, and margin assumptions already clear.
Open feature→Invoice
Turn priced work into invoices and payment collection without rebuilding the numbers in a second tool.
Open feature→Finance
Use P&L, break-even, and commission outputs to guide reporting, payroll, and owner review routines.
Open feature→Do not let clean math hide messy operations.
The calculators are most useful when assumptions stay conservative and the results are tested against real work.
- Using best-case billable hours when the real week includes drive time, callbacks, training, and slow days.
- Pricing from competitor rates before calculating overhead, desired owner wage, and profit target.
- Changing commissions or discounts without checking what happens to gross margin.
- Treating calculator output as final policy before testing it on recent real jobs.
Recalculate when the business changes.
Pricing math should update when costs, team structure, demand, service mix, or collection behavior changes.
The calculator is only as good as the operating assumptions.
Use real recent work, not best-case memory, when building pricing and margin decisions.
Labor reality
Include drive time, callbacks, admin work, training, meetings, and slow days before trusting hourly math.
Material exposure
Track price changes, special-order parts, supplier delays, disposal, and restocking risk.
Cash timing
Connect pricing decisions to deposits, payment terms, failed payments, and invoice lag.
Turn one-off math into operating rules.
The point is not only a number. The point is a rule the team can use consistently.
Pricing decisions need more than one perspective.
The best calculator sessions combine owner targets, dispatch reality, and finance constraints before the number becomes policy.
Owner
Sets the profit target, risk tolerance, and final pricing policy.
Dispatcher
Confirms the real capacity, travel time, and scheduling assumptions behind the math.
Finance
Checks overhead, payment fees, payroll, cash timing, and reporting cadence.
Choose the calculator path that matches the decision.
A small amount of sequencing keeps the tools from producing disconnected numbers.
Each calculator should change one business rule.
Use the result to update a floor, guardrail, review rhythm, or owner decision instead of leaving the number isolated.
Package the result with the assumption and the owner.
- Store the assumptions that created the number so the team can audit it later.
- Assign who updates estimates, payroll, dispatch, or finance after the calculation.
- Set the next review date before the business treats the result as policy.