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Cost Floor Calculator

Your floor is not your price — your price is a market decision. Your floor is arithmetic, and it belongs entirely to you.

For every hour the business takes from you — commute, quoting, invoicing included.

Track two weeks honestly. If 6 of 10 hours are billable, each billable hour carries the other four.

Insurance, software, phone's business share, fuel, processing fees, the accountant. Pricing a dedicated business line? Phone.com starts around $15–18/mo (affiliate — see our disclosure; a free Google Voice number works while starting out).

15.3% self-employment tax plus your income-tax slice. Thirty cents on the dollar covers a modest case.

Taught in your cost floor, part of the pricing method. The worked example there: $40 take-home at a 60% billable share with $8 of overhead per billable hour and a 30% set-aside floors at about $107.