This calculator vs. Workiz
Two different shapes: Workiz is an account-based field service management platform for running a junk removal company's whole operation. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this one cleanout cost, given its material weight and the landfill ticket, before you quote it.
What each tool is for
Workiz is a field service management platform, founded in 2015 by Idan Kadosh, Erez Marom, and Saar Kohanovitch, headquartered in San Diego, California. Two of its founders worked as locksmiths before building it. It serves junk removal, locksmith, carpet cleaning, garage door, appliance repair, and other on-demand service trades with scheduling, dispatch, estimates, invoicing, and communication tools (including AI call handling) across a whole business, with a mobile app for crews in the field. It is an account-based platform: you sign up and use it as an ongoing service across a whole company, not a one-off calculator. Workiz's own pricing page is not reachable from this session to confirm today's exact plan names or dollar figures, so no price for it is invented here: only its well-documented identity and category — field service management software serving the junk removal trade among others, sold as a subscription account — are stated, and no dollar amount for Workiz appears on this page.
This calculator does none of what Workiz does. It does not schedule crews, dispatch trucks, or invoice a customer, and it stores no customer or job record on a server. It takes each material pile's volume and a starting density (mixed junk, furniture, construction debris, drywall, yard waste, dirt, concrete, shingles), plus per-item appliance, mattress, and tire fees, and turns that into estimated tons, the landfill dump ticket (per-ton rate against a minimum, plus surcharge), loaded labor with stairs and a long carry, drive time, and one dump run per truck-full, then overhead and target margin, producing the bid price, the price per cubic yard, the effective hourly rate, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money at the scale — plus, if you already have a price on the table, a check of whether it clears that walk-away floor, and a single printable customer proposal for that one job. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I run a junk removal company and need scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, and call handling across every crew and every job. | Workiz, or a comparable field service platform — running a whole company is not something this calculator does. |
| What should I charge for this cleanout, given the pile's material and volume? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| Does a half-truck of concrete really cost more than a half-truck of couches? | This calculator's per-material density and dump-ticket math, not a flat truck-fraction price. |
| Is the price I'm about to quote still above my walk-away cost for this job? | This calculator's compare-to-proposed-price check. |
| I need one shared account so my whole crew is scheduling, dispatching, and invoicing the same way. | Workiz, or a comparable field service platform. |
| How does the math behind a junk-removal bid actually work? | This calculator's own pricing walkthrough. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. Workiz is used through a subscription account. |
Most hauling companies get different value from each: Workiz (or a comparable field service platform) for scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, and crew communication across a whole company as an ongoing subscription, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login answer to what one cleanout should cost from its material weight and the landfill ticket before a business system is involved. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a scheduled job, an invoice, or a signed proposal.
This tool needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
Common questions
Should I use this calculator or Workiz?
They do different jobs, and a hauling company of any size will likely end up touching both eventually. Workiz is a field service management platform, founded in 2015 by Idan Kadosh, Erez Marom, and Saar Kohanovitch and headquartered in San Diego, California, used by junk removal, locksmith, carpet cleaning, garage door, appliance repair, and other on-demand trades to run scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, and communication across a business, sold as an ongoing subscription account. This calculator does one narrower thing: starting from each material pile's volume and density, plus appliance, mattress, and tire special fees, it estimates the tonnage the landfill will bill, then adds loaded labor for stairs and long carries, drive time, dump runs, overhead, and target margin, and turns that into the bid price, the price per cubic yard, the effective hourly rate, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money at the scale — before any of it touches a business-management system. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. A hauling company that already schedules crews, dispatches trucks, and invoices across every job is better served by Workiz or a comparable field service platform; a hauler who wants an instant, private answer to what one cleanout should cost from its material weight before opening a business system is in the right place here.
Is this page affiliated with Workiz?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Workiz Inc. Workiz is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
Open the Junk Removal Bid Calculator to price your own job.