Pressure Washing Pricing Calculator
Price a specific job from its size, the surface, and the hourly rate you need to clear. Get a quoting range, your effective rate, and your margin. No login, no paywall, and the math never leaves your browser.
Rate and chemical cost are set from the surface you pick. Both are directional. Overwrite them with your own numbers.
Not sure what your hourly rate should be? Solve it first with the cost-per-hour calculator.
Recommended price range
- On-site time
- 1.7 hr
- Effective rate
- $174/hr
- Price per sqft
- $0.15
- Chemical cost
- $40
The range brackets your target price. Quote toward the top for hard access, heavy staining, or add-ons.
Production rates and chemical costs here are directional starting points, not a standard. Real numbers move with your machine, water supply, surface condition, and market. This tool prices the work, it does not set it. Confirm against your own job logs before you quote.
How the pricing works
Start from your hour
A price that holds up is built from time, not a guess. Estimate the hours as square footage divided by your production rate, then multiply by the hourly rate you need to clear. If you have not set that rate yet, the cost-per-hour calculator solves it from your overhead and billable hours first.
Add chemical, then a floor
Chemical is a real cost per square foot, small on siding and larger on a roof. Add it on top of labor. Then hold a minimum charge, because a 300 sqft porch still costs you a truck, fuel, and a slot on the schedule. When the minimum beats labor plus chemical, the tool flags that the floor is in effect.
Pricing a job, step by step
- Measure or estimate the square footage of the surface you are cleaning, not the whole property.
- Pick the surface so the calculator loads a directional production rate and chemical cost, then correct both to your rig.
- Enter the hourly rate you need to hit. If you do not know it, run the cost calculator first and bring the number back.
- Read the range. The low end is a competitive quote, the high end covers hard access, heavy staining, or add-ons.
- Turn on business mode and enter your true cost per hour to see the profit and margin the price actually leaves.
The number most operators get wrong is the production rate. It is not a figure you look up once. It is a property of your machine, your water, and the surface in front of you, and it drifts job to job. Price from a rate you have actually measured, and re-check it when a job runs long. There is no national price sheet either: you are bidding against the roughly 32,000 U.S. pressure washing firms in our pressure washing industry statistics, most of them small and local, so a default rate is a starting point, never a standard.
Questions operators ask
How do I price a pressure washing job?
Price from three numbers: how big the job is, how fast you clean that surface, and what your hour is worth. Estimate the hours as square footage divided by your production rate, multiply by your hourly rate, add your chemical cost, and hold a minimum for small jobs. A 2,000 sqft house wash at 1,200 sqft per hour and a $150 hour runs about 1.7 hours, so roughly $250 in labor plus chemical. The calculator runs that math and returns a quoting range.
What production rate should I use per surface?
It depends on your machine and the surface. As directional starting points, house washing often runs near 1,200 sqft per hour, concrete with a surface cleaner near 1,500, soft-washing a roof near 700, and wood decks or fences near 500. Treat these as a place to start, not a standard. Your real rate moves with water supply, staining, access, and the day. Log a few jobs and replace the defaults with your own.
Should I price per square foot or per hour?
Quote the customer a flat price, but build it from your hour. Per-square-foot pricing is easy to say out loud, and it breaks when a job is slow, cramped, or badly stained. Pricing from production rate and your hourly cost protects the jobs that eat time. This tool shows both the flat range and the effective per-square-foot and per-hour numbers, so you can sanity-check a quote against your route.
Is this calculator free?
Yes. No login, no paywall. The math runs entirely in your browser and nothing you enter is sent anywhere. Some field-service apps charge a monthly fee for the same estimate.
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Pepper’s Pressure Washing’s marketing
We build the websites, local SEO, and lead tracking that turn a pressure washing route into booked jobs. Set your rate with the cost-per-hour calculator, see how we run the pressure washing marketing system, or read the Pepper’s case study. Once a quote turns into a booked job, our lead tracking guide ties that revenue back to the marketing channel that produced it.
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