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What does that flat price really pay per hour?

A $180 detail sounds fine until it eats five hours of your day. Enter the package price and every minute it takes, including the ones nobody pays for. The result is what you actually earned per hour, and the price that would have hit your target.

Free, no signup. Last updated 2026-10-13.

Package price ($)

What the customer pays before tip.

Tip ($)

Optional. Counted as income, assumed not charged a card fee.

Time on site (hours)

Drive time, round trip (minutes)

Prep, setup, cleanup, messaging (minutes)

Loading the van, quoting, texting, photos, invoicing, hauling water.

Materials ($)

Miles, round trip

Vehicle cost per mile ($)

Your own number, not a tax rate.

Card fee (%)

Assumed. Check your processor.

Card fee fixed ($)

Target take-home ($/hour)

What an hour of your whole day should earn you.

Why on-site hours lie

Booking Koala makes the same point: divide a flat package price by hours and the inconsistencies between packages show up fast. The honest denominator is the whole block of your day the job used, which is on-site time plus the drive plus the work around it. Read their breakdown, "How Much Do Car Detailers Make Per Hour", for the flat-fee example, read 2026-10-13. It carries no publication or update date, and the wage figure it quotes is 2021 Bureau of Labor Statistics data, so treat its numbers as old and its argument as the useful part.

How it is calculated

Costs: materials, miles times cost per mile, and the card fee (percent of the price plus the fixed amount).
Take-home is price plus tip minus those costs. Divided by on-site plus drive plus prep hours, that is the all-in hourly.
Required price solves for your target: (target hourly x total hours + materials + mileage - tip + fixed fee) / (1 - fee%).
Overhead such as insurance and software is not in here. For a price built from overhead and margin use the job price calculator.

Take-home here is before income tax and self-employment tax. This page does arithmetic; it does not tell you what to charge or what you owe.

Rigsheet is a job app for mobile detailers and cleaners with quoting, scheduling with drive-time buffers and deposits. See what it does. This calculator is complete without it.