$ Hive Quote Check

How to use it

Bee removal quotes die on one flat number. A $150 flat fee sounds fine until the wall cutout, the comb cleanup, the ladder work, and the drive all get priced at zero. Start with your bar (75), profit margin percent (20), minimum job fee ($150), and daily take-home goal ($600). Pick a job preset: Exposed swarm, Soffit, Wall cutout, or Chimney, each filling catch minutes, comb cleanup minutes, repair minutes, and repair materials as editable starting points. Choose the service type: live removal with relocation, or extermination at a 1.25x time multiplier for the chemical job. The leaks card adds access height (ladder tiers up to roofline at 90 extra minutes), a second-visit toggle that adds drive plus 45 minutes, one-way drive minutes, round-trip miles, and vehicle cost per mile. Results show your time value, vehicle cost, repair materials, true cost, the recommended quote (true cost plus margin, never below the minimum, rounded up to $25), and your effective rate per hour. Verdicts are PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE, BUT LEAKING, WORKING TOO CHEAP, or LOSING MONEY. The gut check grades your instinct quote; the day planner turns your goal into jobs. No signup; runs on your phone.

Worked example

Example only, not typical pricing. Wall cutout preset at a $75 bar with 20 percent margin: 150 catch plus 90 comb cleanup plus 90 repair plus 60 ladder minutes equals 390 job minutes, plus 50 round-trip drive minutes equals 440 total minutes, or 7.33 hours at $75, which is $550 of labor. Vehicle is 30 miles at $0.67 equals $20.10. Repair materials are $60. True cost is $550 plus $20.10 plus $60 equals $630.10. Recommended quote is max(150, 630.10 x 1.20) rounded up to $25 equals $775. Effective rate is $775 divided by 7.33 equals $105.68 per hour, which clears the bar, so the verdict is PRICED RIGHT. A $150 gut quote would pay $20.45 per hour and leave $625 on the table. The day planner turns $144.90 of profit per job into 4.1 jobs and about 30 hours for a $600 day: price the ladder, not just the hive.

FAQs

Why does extermination carry a 1.25x time multiplier?

Chemical removal adds handling, dwell, and safety time that live capture skips. The multiplier prices those extra minutes at your bar instead of letting them ride free.

What does the comb-cleanup checkbox warn about?

Skipping cleanup invites recolonization and a free callback. The tool prices the minutes either way, and flags the callback risk in the planner.

Why is one-way drive doubled?

Every job has a trip home. Doubling the one-way minutes prices the full round trip at your bar, plus miles at your vehicle rate.

What does CLOSE, BUT LEAKING mean?

Your effective rate clears the bar but stays under 110 percent of it. Ladders, drive, or repair materials are usually the leak.

When does the minimum job fee decide the quote?

Tiny exposed-swarm jobs near home can cost less than $150 to run. The minimum fee holds the quote up so the trip is still worth taking.