For 2+ truck residential HVAC shops doing $1M+

How many jobs a month just to keep the trucks running?

Most HVAC shops price their service calls on napkin math. Put in your rough overhead and ticket averages below to find your true break-even volume, and see which jobs actually pay the bills.

1 · Your monthly overhead

What it costs to open the doors before a single truck rolls

$ a month

2 · The work you do

Tap any number to change it. “Costs you” is parts plus the tech's pay, counting his paid hours that aren't on any job. Leave out trucks, fuel and the office: they're in step 1. These are rough ballparks from memory, not an audit. But they show you immediately if your trucks are bleeding cash.

Remove Job type Avg ticket Costs you Jobs a month You keep a month
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Break-even

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jobs a month

Where you stand

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3 · What carries the overhead

Share of the bills each job type actually pays

Detailed breakdown

Drop your email below to download the one-page breakdown, napkin math for a typical shop: what a $200 service call costs once you count the truck and the office, margins by job type, three common leaks, and two checks to run in ServiceTitan or Housecall Pro.

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