The opening
Pick a common job to start, then replace every rate with a millwork invoice and a crew you have timed. Changing scope, leaf, or size fills starting hours and material only when you have not already edited that field.
Hours and material rates
These start from the scope, leaf, and size you picked. They are ballpark crew figures, not a millwork catalog or a guarantee.
Your costs
Payroll burden covers employer taxes, workers’ compensation, liability insurance, and paid time off. Underestimating it is how a $150 hang that looked profitable was not.
Your bid
- Doors
- Travel
- Crew hours
- Loaded labor
- Leaf and height
- Frame, casing, extras
- Travel & other
- Overhead
- Total cost
- Profit
- Price per door
- Effective hourly rate
- Walk-away price
A bid link carries your own rates — wage, burden, overhead, and target margin — so the page reopens exactly as you left it. Send it to yourself or your crew. The numbers ride after the #, which is never sent to a server, so copying a link uploads nothing. The customer should get the price, not the link.
Same opening, four scopes
| Scope | Hours | Price |
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Same opening, four leaves
The upgrade a homeowner is asking for when they say “can we do solid-core instead?” — same opening, same scope, starting leaf kits. Matching the hollow-slab special on a French-pair job is the losing bid.
| Leaf | Hours | Price | vs hollow slab |
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Same opening, who bought the leaf
The $150 “just hang what I bought at the store” special. Zeroing the millwork invoice is not the same as a free hang — the trip and the set still cost money, and a slab that binds is a second trip. Should I hang a customer-supplied door?
| Who supplies | Hours | Your bid | At their number |
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Same opening, when you can work
The “can you come Saturday? Same $150?” special. A weekday they-leave slot is the bid you already have. Weekday while they stay home is the same wage on a slower hang. After-hours is time-and-a-half plus a second dispatch because a Saturday hang is not a stop you combine with a weekday route. Should I hang doors on Saturday?
| When | Hours | Your bid | At their number |
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Where the hours go
Transparent arithmetic from your own inputs. The starting hours and material rates are common ballpark figures, not an industry standard, a benchmark, or a guarantee — time your own crews and replace them.
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.
Common questions
Why can a flyer advertise “$150 a door installed”?
Because that number describes one specific job, and it is the first preset here: a hollow-core slab hung on an existing jamb, 80-inch single opening, no paint, no haul-away, no hardware upgrade. Hang-only bills 0.75 hours of hang labor and a $48 door invoice — genuinely close to $150 installed. A prehung swap, a new framed opening, or a pocket conversion is a different job with its own framing and casing hours, and the flyer’s number was never written to cover them.
Why does a pocket conversion cost so much more than a prehung swap?
Because it is framing a wall cavity, not swapping a unit. A prehung swap bills 1.4 hours to hang, 0.3 to frame, and a $0 frame kit. A pocket conversion bills 1.8 hours to hang, 3.4 hours to frame, and a $240 frame kit on top of $68 of casing — more than ten times the framing labor of a swap, before the door leaf itself is counted.
What does the door type change beyond the invoice?
Both labor and material move together. A hollow-core slab adds zero extra hours and a $48 invoice. A hollow-core prehung unit adds 0.15 hours and $175. A solid-core prehung adds 0.5 hours — it is heavier to hang and shim — and $340. A French pair or barn door adds 1.15 hours and $720, since it is effectively two leaves or a track system instead of one swinging slab.
Why does an 8-foot or double door cost more than the standard 80-inch single?
Height and leaf count each carry their own hours and hardware cost, on top of whatever the door type already bills. A 96-inch single adds 0.55 hours and a $95 extra-leaf charge for the taller jamb and casing run. A double opening adds 0.9 hours and $175, since it is two leaves and two sets of hardware in one frame.
What do paint, haul-away, and hardware upgrades add per door?
Each is billed per door, not as a flat job fee, so they scale with door count the way a whole- house order actually does. Skipping them on a single-door swap barely moves the price; skipping them on an eight-door whole-house job is the difference between a painter’s punch list and a finished room.
Is my data uploaded anywhere?
No account and no network requests — the calculator runs entirely in your browser. Your bid is saved in this browser’s local storage so it is still here next visit. The optional usage counter records only which features were used and the day, never your door count, wages, or prices.