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Pressure washing job estimator

Price a house wash, driveway, deck, roof soft wash or fence from your own production speed, crew, chemicals, drive time and target margin. Then check it against your per-square-foot rate and your minimum charge.

Estimates only. This estimator uses only the numbers you type. The starting speeds and per-sq-ft rates below are placeholders we picked so the math runs. They aren’t industry figures, survey data or recommended prices. Replace them with numbers from your own timed jobs and your local market. It doesn’t cover taxes, insurance or overhead unless you build them into your labor rate or supplies. Nothing you type is sent or saved; it all runs in your browser.

1 · The job

Surface type Picks which row of your speeds and rates to use

Area to clean (sq ft) Measure on site or from a map; confirm anything the image can’t show

Price the job by Either way, the estimator works out your cost

Crew size on the job Splits on-site time; everyone’s drive time is paid

2 · Your speeds and rates (placeholders)

Placeholder starting values, not industry figures. Edit every row to match your own jobs. Speed is square feet one person cleans in one hour, including setup for that surface.

House sidingHouse siding: sq ft per labor hourHouse siding: dollars per sq ft

Driveway / concreteDriveway / concrete: sq ft per labor hourDriveway / concrete: dollars per sq ft

DeckDeck: sq ft per labor hourDeck: dollars per sq ft

Roof soft washRoof soft wash: sq ft per labor hourRoof soft wash: dollars per sq ft

FenceFence: sq ft per labor hourFence: dollars per sq ft

3 · Costs, minimum and margin

Hourly labor rate ($ per person-hour) Wages plus payroll costs, or what you want to pay yourself

Chemicals & supplies for this job ($) Surfactant, bleach/SH, sealer, fuel for the machine

Drive time (minutes, round trip) Paid for each person on the crew

Minimum job charge ($) Your floor for small jobs; 0 = no minimum

Target margin (%) Profit as a share of the price

Price for this job

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Effective price per sq ft

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Your direct cost

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Fill in the fields to see the math.

Quote by measured area

QuoteIQ lists satellite measuring (MapMeasure Pro) from its Beginner plan at $99.99/mo. Jobber lists quotes, online booking and invoices from Core at $29/mo billed annually (as checked Oct 10, 2026).

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Paying a crew? Gusto lists payroll from $49/mo + $6/mo per person. See Gusto → affiliate link

Compare more in our pressure washing guide.

The formula

Labor hours on surface = sq ft ÷ your sq ft per labor hour (that surface) Drive hours = round-trip drive minutes ÷ 60 × crew size Labor cost = (labor hours + drive hours) × hourly labor rate Direct cost = labor cost + chemicals & supplies Price (costs + margin) = direct cost ÷ (1 − target margin %) Price (rate per sq ft) = sq ft × your $ per sq ft (that surface) Price for this job = the higher of that price and your minimum job charge Effective price/sq ft = price for this job ÷ sq ft Margin on this job = (price − direct cost) ÷ price On-site time = labor hours ÷ crew size

Margin is profit as a percentage of the price, not a markup on cost. A 30% margin means $0.30 of every $1 you charge is left after the direct costs above. If you price by the square foot, the estimator still works out your cost so it can warn you when a price falls below cost or below your target margin.

Worked example

A 2,000 sq ft house wash (siding) with the placeholder speed of 400 sq ft per labor hour is 5.0 labor hours. With a crew of 2 and a 30-minute round trip, add 1.0 drive hour (0.5 h × 2), for 6.0 paid hours. At $22 per person-hour that’s $132 in labor. Add $35 in chemicals and supplies for a direct cost of $167. At a 30% target margin: $167 ÷ 0.70 = $238.57 for the job, which is above the $150 minimum. That’s an effective $0.12 per sq ft ($238.57 ÷ 2,000 = $0.1193), with about 2.5 hours on site for the crew. For comparison, the placeholder siding rate of $0.25 per sq ft would price the same job at $500.00, a 66.6% margin.

Quoting lots of jobs? Some pressure-washing software lists satellite measuring and saved price books. See our pressure washing software guide → Not sure what your hourly labor rate should be? Try the hourly rate calculator.