See what your trade pays, and what to charge
Pay data for 91 trades and services, with a calculator that turns a wage into a billing rate.
- New pay and rates pages show what 91 trades and services earn per hour, from the lowest 10% to the top 10%, using Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Each page, such as drywall installers, lists pay in every state.
- Each page has a billing rate calculator. Enter a wage, your taxes and insurance, overhead, profit, and how much of your time is billable, and it suggests an hourly rate you can drop straight into an estimate.
- Estimate builders for these trades now link to their pay page, so you can check your pricing while you build a quote.
- New invoice requirement pages for Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Peru, in English and Spanish, list what each invoice must show, the tax rates, and how long to keep records, with links to the official sources.
- The Spanish glossary goes deeper: key terms such as conciliación bancaria and cotización now explain how things work in practice, and new entries cover Latin American terms like CAE, CUFE, RUC, and detracción.
- New glossary pages explain early payment discount terms: 2/10 Net 30, 1/10 Net 30, and 2/10 Net 60. Each one shows the math, how to write the terms on an invoice, and a calculator for the discount deadline and due date. The due date calculator now handles all three.
- The payment terms guide now groups every term by type (net terms, early payment discounts, end of month, prox, and pay-first terms), with a short summary of each and a link to the full explanation.