Set your goal however you think about it - per hour, week, month, or year - and get the labor rate that actually hits it.
What actually lands in your pocket, after overhead. Set it whichever way you think about it.
Everything the business costs you in a month, whether you turn a wrench or not: insurance, truck payment, tools and tool debt, software, phone, storage, licenses. Enter 0 if you truly have none.
Fill in your goal and overhead. The labor rate to charge shows up here.
This free check can't know your drive, so the rate above ignores it. Subscribers don't have that gap: on every repair order the app automatically figures the drive to that customer, adds the travel time to the job, and checks the whole thing against your hourly goal - before you send the price. Not a one-time setting. It happens on each and every job.
Get a clean copy in your inbox with a link that reopens this exact calculation.
Run the numbers first.
Set your goal once during profile creation and Repair Rocket checks every estimate against it for you.
Free to start, no card. Paid plans carry a 30-day money-back guarantee, no catch. Not happy? Email us and it's refunded.
This runs the same goal math Repair Rocket runs when you create your profile. You set your take-home goal whichever way you think about it - per hour, per week, per month, or per year - and the tool converts it to an hourly number using your scheduled hours (a year is your weekly hours times 52). Your monthly overhead gets spread the way the app spreads it: divided by the average weeks in a month (52 ÷ 12), then across the hours per week you actually schedule. Take-home per hour plus overhead per hour is your must-hit rate, and the suggested labor rate is that number rounded up to a clean $5 - exactly what the app suggests during profile creation. Nothing is guessed - it is arithmetic on the numbers you typed in.
Independent mobile mechanics in the US commonly charge somewhere between $75 and $150 an hour depending on the market and the specialty. But the right number for you is not what anyone else charges - it is the rate that still hits your take-home goal after your overhead is spread across your scheduled hours. And the labor rate is only the start: every job also carries fuel for the drive and card fees on the money collected, which is why the app tracks those on every estimate too. If your must-hit rate comes out higher than your market will pay, the levers are lower overhead or more scheduled hours - not working for less than the business costs you. None of this is tax or financial advice - it is arithmetic on the numbers you typed in.
Same deal as this one. Free to use, built for techs who work out of a truck.
Trip Fee
Driving to the job? Stop eating the gas money. Price the trip with real road miles before you quote, not after you get home.
Paper to Quote
Still scribbling quotes on the back of a receipt? Take a photo of it and it comes back typed, priced and ready to text or email.
Sample Inspection
Want to see what your customers would get? Type your shop name and get a real inspection report link with photos - branded to you.
Labor Time Lookup
Not sure how many hours to charge? Look up the book time for the exact vehicle before you quote. If it is not in the guide, it says so.