Electrician price book
- Book price, small task
- $157.50
- Book price, medium task
- $690
- Book price, large task
- $3,700
- Diagnostic fee on the front page
- $95
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Download the Electrician price book worked example (CSV)
This builds the spine of an electrician's price book. It takes your billing rate per hour, your material markup and your diagnostic fee, and prices three representative tasks, a small one like a receptacle or a GFCI, a medium one like a ceiling fan or a dedicated circuit, and a large one like a panel upgrade or an EV charger, from the hours and the materials you enter. The three prices are the anchors every other task in the book is set against, and the page shows how much of the large task is labor so the book stays honest when copper and equipment prices move.
A price book is a billing rate applied consistently
Every task price in a book is the same arithmetic: hours at the billing rate plus materials at the markup. A book that was set task by task, from memory and from what the last customer would pay, drifts until two similar tasks carry very different prices and the electrician cannot explain why. Setting the rate and the markup once, and pricing every task from them, is what makes the book defensible.
The three anchors set the shape of the book
A small, a medium and a large task, priced properly, tell you what every other task should look like: a task with three hours and few materials sits near the medium anchor, a task with a big piece of equipment sits near the large one. Price the anchors first, then the top forty tasks by frequency, then the rest. The page gives you the anchors.
Watch the labor share when equipment prices move
A panel upgrade price is a large part equipment; a receptacle price is nearly all labor. When the supply house raises the price of a panel, the large tasks move and the small ones barely do. The page shows the labor share of the large task so you can see which end of the book needs re-pricing when costs change.
Electrician price book: common questions
Is this a free electrician price book?
Yes: the anchor prices and the labor share are computed here for free with no account. BreakerDesk Pro holds the full book against your account, prices every task from the same rate and markup, and puts the book prices on your estimates and invoices.
How many tasks should an electrician's price book have?
Enough to cover what you sell every week, which for most service shops is one to two hundred tasks. Start with the forty most frequent; the worked example assumes a book of 100 priced tasks.
Where does the billing rate come from?
From your wage, burden, overhead and margin. The cost calculator on this site builds it; put its billing rate figure into this page and the book is priced from your business, not from a guess.