PATH013 — Hour Price

Which of your regular tasks are actually worth doing yourself?

Hour Price is the thirteenth PATH in the 72BLUEMATH series — a Thinking

Calculator for anyone who does everything themselves: freelancers,

founders, and anyone with a long list of small recurring tasks.

Most people decide by feel. They do some tasks themselves out of thrift,

outsource others out of impatience, and never once run the actual

comparison. Hour Price runs it for you.

List your recurring tasks. Price what it would cost to hand each one

off. The calculator multiplies your task time by your real hourly

value, compares it to the outsource cost, and ranks every task by the

Gap — the size of the money you're quietly leaving on the table.

You'll walk away with a ranked list, a clear verdict on each task —

Outsource, Keep Doing It, or Close Call — and a Result Card you can

save.

Built on Gary Becker's 1965 theory of the allocation of time — the

foundational economic idea that your hours carry a real price, whether

or not money ever changes hands for them.

20–30 minutes. One question. One experiment. One visible output.

A Thinking Calculator that ranks your recurring tasks by what they're

actually costing you to keep doing yourself — so you know exactly what

to hand off first.