Pressure Washing Pricing Calculator — Stop Losing Your Margin in a Jug

Two gallons of SH and a quarter gallon of surfactant is about $14. Every single wash.

Do three a day, never count it, and that's over $10,000 a year you quietly handed to your chemical supplier. Your margin isn't leaving on labour. It's leaving in a jug.

This is the sheet that catches it. Put in the square footage, the surface, your hours and what you actually poured. It gives you three numbers:

1. YOUR BREAK-EVEN - what the job costs you before you make a cent. Chemicals, 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 answers in dollars: "THIS JOB LOSES MONEY. It costs you $118. At $110 you are down $8."

Then it does the thing no free template does: it checks your number against the market. A driveway runs $0.30-$0.55 per square foot in the US. If your costs say more than that, the sheet tells you you'll lose the bid - and why (usually too many people or too many hours on a small job).

WHAT'S INSIDE

Job Pricer - break-even, recommended price, price per square foot, effective earnings per crew-hour

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

Market check - published US per-square-foot ranges for driveways, house washes and other surfaces

Benchmark Rates - 2026 chemical prices, hourly rates, margins, minimum service fees, all sourced

Job Log - win rate, revenue, average margin

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

Surface types are one keystroke: 1 for driveway and concrete, 2 for a soft-wash house, 3 for anything else. Each carries its own published price band, so the sheet knows a house wash and a driveway are not the same job.

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