Painting and Decorating Job Price Calculator

The decorating job price calculator helps you build a job price room by room. You enter labour time, materials, additional expenses, markup and VAT, and the calculator produces a live breakdown of costs, a suggested customer price and an estimated profit margin.

Add a room and select the work involved — walls, ceiling, woodwork, doors, preparation, wallpaper removal or other work. Enter your estimated labour hours or days, your hourly or day rate and the number of decorators. Add materials, additional expenses and any parking, travel or waste disposal costs. Set your markup percentage, toggle VAT and apply a customer discount if needed.

Labour cost is calculated from your time, rate and number of decorators. The subtotal is the sum of labour, materials and additional expenses. Markup is applied to the subtotal. VAT is added where selected. The customer discount is deducted from the VAT-inclusive total to give the suggested customer price. Estimated profit is the difference between the suggested price and your total costs.

Actual labour time, material price changes and unexpected preparation work all affect your final profit. This tool helps you estimate and plan, but the decorator remains responsible for checking all measurements, costs, tax treatment and final pricing before sending a quote to a customer.