Junk Removal Pricing Calculator — Know Your Number Before You Say It Out Loud

"Just a few boxes," he said. It was six yards, two flights of stairs, and a mattress the dump charges extra for. You quoted $180 on the phone. It cost you $204 to do.

That is not a pricing problem. That is a you-didn't-know-your-break-even problem.

This is the sheet that fixes it. Put in the load, the drive, and the crew. It gives you three numbers:

1. YOUR BREAK-EVEN - what the job costs you before you make a cent. Disposal, labour, truck, overhead.
2. WHAT TO CHARGE - your cost plus the margin you actually want to hit.
3. WHETHER THE PRICE YOU HAD IN MIND LOSES MONEY - type it in and it tells you, in dollars: "THIS JOB LOSES MONEY. It costs you $204. At $150 you are down $54."

Then it does the thing no free template does: it checks your number against the market. A quarter load sells for $120-$275 in the US. If your costs say $371, the sheet tells you that you will lose the bid, and why - usually two guys on a job that needed one.

WHAT'S INSIDE

Job Pricer - break-even, recommended price, profit per crew-hour, price per cubic yard

Am I underpricing? - the dollar answer, plus what three of those a week costs you in a year

Market check - published US price bands by load size

Benchmark Rates - 2026 tipping fees by region, crew wages, margins, all sourced

Job Log - win rate, revenue, average margin

Works in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Yellow = type here. Green = your answer. Instant download.

THE ONE NUMBER WORTH MORE THAN THIS SHEET

It teaches you to pull your real lbs-per-cubic-yard off your own dump tickets. Do that once and you will never guess a load again.

For comparison: field service software runs $39 a month, forever. This is $39 once.