Mobile bartenders: does the package price survive setup, teardown, and supply runs? Free, no signup.
Mobile bartenders underprice because they quote the party, not the whole day around it. This calculator prices event packages from real hours and real costs. Start with your bar: the minimum hourly rate you will work for (75 default) and your monthly take-home goal. Pick a preset: House party ($700, 80 guests), Wedding ($1,200, 120 guests, one extra bartender), or Corporate ($1,600, 150 guests, two extra bartenders), all editable starting points. Enter service, setup, teardown, and shopping plus prep hours, plus round-trip travel minutes, and the tool totals your real committed hours. The costs card takes pay per extra bartender, supplies per guest (ice, mixers), garnish, rentals, insurance share, and drive miles at $0.67 per mile. Results show a line-item breakdown, net before your labor, your true hourly rate against your bar, and a recommended package price: hours times bar plus costs, rounded up to the nearest $25. Verdicts run LOSING MONEY, PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE BUT LEAKING, and UNDERPRICED with the exact dollar raise needed. The gut box grades your instinct quote, and the month planner turns your goal into events needed. No signup; runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. House party preset: $700 package, 80 guests, 4 service + 1.5 setup + 1 teardown + 2 prep hours, 60 minutes travel = 9.5 real hours. Costs: 80 guests x $4 supplies = $320.00, garnish $30.00, insurance share $40.00, drive 40 x $0.67 = $26.80, for $416.80 total. Net before your labor = 700 - 416.80 = $283.20. Effective rate = 283.20 / 9.5 = $29.81 per hour against the $75 bar, so the verdict is UNDERPRICED. Recommended package = (9.5 x 75 + 416.80) = $1,129.30, rounded up to the nearest $25 = $1,150. A $4,000 monthly goal needs 4,000 / 283.20 = 14.1, rounded up to 15 events, costing about 143 hours that month.
It depends on your market, guest count, and hours. Flat packages in the hundreds of dollars are common, but the right number is hours times your rate plus costs. Enter your real hours and let the tool back into the package price.
A flat package usually wins, with supplies priced per guest inside it. Ice, mixers, and garnish scale with the headcount, so the tool multiplies your per-guest supply cost by guests before subtracting it from the package.
Setup and teardown, the shopping and prep run, travel time and miles, and the insurance share. A four-hour pour is really a nine-hour day here, and the $26.80 drive plus $30 in garnish come straight out of the package.
Their pay is a direct cost, and they rarely cut your hours much. Enter the headcount and the pay per extra bartender, and the calculator subtracts it before measuring your rate.
It depends on the package. At the house-party net of $283.20 per event, the planner says 15 events for a $4,000 goal, about 143 hours. Bigger packages move that number fast.