The vehicle
Start from a common job, then replace every figure with your own numbers. Changing glass position, source, calibration, or service never overwrites a rate you already typed. This prices a replacement — not a resin chip repair and not a collision-damage claim.
Your shop rates
A $28/h technician loaded at 22% is $34.16. On a windshield, material (glass, moldings, urethane, calibration) usually outweighs labor — quoting off the labor clock alone is how a calibration line gets left out entirely.
Your bid
- Glass, source, calibration
- Extras
- Shop hours
- Loaded labor
- Glass + calibration + trip
- Travel + equipment
- Overhead
- Total cost
- Profit at this price
- Effective hourly rate
- Walk-away price
- Billing split
Where the hours go
Where the cost goes
Transparent arithmetic from your own inputs. Starting hours and glass costs are common ballpark figures, not a parts catalog or a calibration standard — replace them with your own supplier invoice and calibration-center quote.
Common questions
Why does a $249 coupon windshield price at $630?
Because the coupon rate is not the shop's cost. The default economy in-shop swap runs 1.35 hours — 1.1 for removal and installation plus 0.25 of site time — which is $46.12 of loaded labor, but the glass, moldings, and urethane kit add $305, travel and equipment $25, and overhead $52.66, for a $428.77 cost before margin. Material is 71.1% of direct cost here; labor is only 10.8%. A windshield is priced by the part and the adhesive kit, not mainly by the clock.
Why is this bid flagged “ADAS calibration required but not priced”?
Because the vehicle has a forward camera or sensor mounted to or sighted through this glass, and neither calibration hours nor a calibration cost were entered — the price as typed is a windshield with no calibration line in it at all. Most vehicles built since roughly 2018 carry lane-keep, automatic emergency braking, or adaptive cruise hardware tied to the windshield, and replacing the glass moves the camera's aim even when the bracket looks untouched. Choosing a calibration requirement fills in a starting hours-and-cost pair; the flag only clears once both are actually priced.
Does mobile service change the price much?
By the trip fee and the trip hours, both editable. The default mobile job adds a $45 trip-fee material line and bills 0.35 hours of the technician's time at the loaded wage, on top of whatever the glass, calibration, and overhead already cost. In-shop carries neither, because the customer's own drive is not billed.
How does the cash discount work against an insurance-billed price?
The target-margin price is worked out first, the same way for every job. A cash customer's discount is then applied to that number, and the amount saved is shown separately, so the discount never hides what the job actually costs to run. An insurance job instead splits the same price into what the customer's deductible covers and what gets billed to the insurer — it is never discounted.
Hand the customer a proposal
The price above is for you. This is the page you print or save as a PDF and give to the customer — your details, their details, the scope, the deposit split, and a line for them to sign. Your business details are saved on this device so you only type them once; the customer’s details are never saved.
Everything on the printed page is text you typed or a number this calculator worked out. It contains no warranty, lien, or cancellation wording — those depend on your jurisdiction and your contract, and this tool is not the place to invent them.