Is this organizing package actually paying you? Free, no signup.
The gut-check box grades the number your instinct would have said.
Consults you do not bill, product runs, and follow-up messages are real hours. Count them.
Only what you eat, not what the client reimburses.
Projects like this one, at the recommended price, to hit your goal.
Organizing packages die on flat pricing. A $800 full-day package looks fine until the free consult, the product run, follow-up messages, drive time, and absorbed supplies quietly eat the margin, so this calculator checks the package against every real hour. Start with your bar: the minimum dollars per hour you will work for (90), plus a monthly take-home goal. Pick a preset: Half-day ($400, 4 on-site hours), Full-day ($800, 7 hours), or Whole-home ($2,500, 24 hours), each filling consult, shopping, follow-up, and drive minutes, plus supplies and miles as editable starting points. The hidden-hours card holds the unbilled time: free consult and walkthrough, shopping and prep, follow-ups and labels, and round-trip drive. The costs card takes supplies you absorb (only what you eat, not what the client reimburses), miles times vehicle cost, and assistant hours and pay. Results show a line-item breakdown, real hours, profit after costs, and the recommended price (real hours at your bar plus costs, rounded up to $25), with PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE BUT LEAKING, UNDERPRICED, or LOSING MONEY verdicts. The gut check grades the quote your instinct would have given. No signup; runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. Full-day preset at a $90 bar: hidden minutes are 45 consult plus 120 shopping plus 45 follow-up plus 60 drive = 270 minutes = 4.5 hours. Real hours = 7 on-site plus 4.5 hidden = 11.5. Costs = $80 supplies plus 40 x $0.67 = $26.80 drive = $106.80. Profit = 800 - 106.80 = $693.20. Effective rate = 693.20 / 11.5 = $60.28 per hour, which is under 80 percent of the $90 bar, so the verdict is UNDERPRICED. The recommended price is 11.5 x 90 + 106.80 = $1,141.80, rounded up to $1,150. A $700 gut quote pays (700 - 106.80) / 11.5 = $51.58 per hour, leaving (90 - 51.58) x 11.5 = $441.80 on the table. A $4,000 monthly goal at $1,043.20 profit per project needs 3.83, rounded up to 4 projects, which is 46.0 committed hours.
**Q** What counts as a hidden hour?
The consult, the product run, follow-up messages, labels and photos, and the drive. The tool adds them in a separate card so you can see how big the slice is before deciding what to do about it.
**Q** Should I charge for the consult?
Many organizers do not, and that is fine, but the hour still happened. This calculator counts it in real hours so an unpaid consult shows up in the verdict instead of hiding inside the package.
**Q** How do I handle supplies the client reimburses?
Leave them out. The supplies field is only for what you absorb: bins, labels, and tools you pay for yourself. Client-reimbursed products are not your cost.
**Q** Why is the recommended price so much higher than my package?
Because your package was priced on on-site hours while the tool prices real hours. The full-day preset has 4.5 hidden hours behind 7 on-site hours, which is where the gap comes from.
**Q** What does the month planner tell me?
How many projects at the recommended price reach your monthly goal, and how many real hours that roster costs. Past 160 hours a month it flags over 40 hours a week, because at that point you raise the price, not the headcount.