Is this listing shoot actually paying you? Free, no signup.
The signature leak: 30 photos at 6 min each is 3 hours of editing the quote never mentions.
Assumes every shoot pays and costs like this one. Count your slow months too.
Listing shoots die on editing time. A $325 package looks fine until 35 delivered photos at 6 minutes each quietly add 3.5 hours of post-processing the quote never mentions, so this calculator prices the whole shoot from shutter to delivery. Start with your bar: the minimum dollars per hour you will work for (75), plus a monthly take-home goal. Pick a package preset: Photos only ($175, 1.25 on-site hours, 25 photos), Photos + drone ($325, 1.75 hours, 35 photos), or Full media ($550, 3 hours, 40 photos), all editable starting points. The everything-else card counts round-trip drive minutes, agent comms and scheduling, and toggleable add-ons: video walkthrough (+3 hours), 3D tour (+1.75), twilight return trip (+1.5), plus a rush flag. Real costs take miles times vehicle cost and a gear, insurance, and software share per shoot. Results show editing hours against shooting hours, net after costs, and your true hourly rate against the bar, with PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE BUT LEAKING, UNDERPRICED, or LOSING MONEY verdicts. The gut check grades the quote you would have given, and the month planner turns your goal into shoots. No signup; runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. Photos + drone preset at a $75 bar: $325 price. Editing is 35 photos x 6 minutes = 210 minutes = 3.5 hours. Total real hours = 1.75 shoot + 3.5 edit + 40/60 drive + 20/60 comms = 6.25 hours. Costs are 25 miles x 0.67 = $16.75 plus $12 gear share = $28.75. Net = 325 - 28.75 = $296.25. True rate = 296.25 / 6.25 = $47.40 per hour, which misses the $75 bar, so the verdict is UNDERPRICED. The price needed is 75 x 6.25 + 28.75 = $497.50, rounded to $500. A $175 gut quote nets 146.25 and pays $23.40 per hour, leaving $322.50 on the table. A $5,000 goal needs 5,000 / 296.25 = 16.88, rounded up to 17 shoots, which is 106.3 committed hours.
**Q** Why does editing count in the shoot price?
Because editing is the shoot. In the example above, 3.5 of the 6.25 real hours are post-processing. Quoting only the on-site hour is how photographers end up working for $23 an hour.
**Q** How do I price drone add-ons?
The Photos + drone preset bakes drone time into the on-site hours and price. If agents ask for video or a 3D tour separately, flip the add-on toggles instead of absorbing the hours for free.
**Q** Should rush delivery cost more?
Yes. The rush flag reminds you that same-day or next-morning delivery should be priced 20 to 50 percent higher, not done for free at the standard package price.
**Q** What goes in the gear share line?
Your per-shoot slice of camera bodies, lenses, the drone, insurance, and editing software. $12 a shoot is the default; raise it if your kit is more expensive.
**Q** How many shoots do I need per month?
The planner divides your take-home goal by net per shoot. At $296.25 net, a $5,000 goal is 17 shoots. Fix the price first, because more underpriced shoots just cost more hours.