Stop Guessing Your Welding Job Prices

The Problem: Most Welding Jobs Are Underpriced

Most welders don’t lose money because they can’t weld.
They lose money because they guess.

Common mistakes:

• Forgetting prep, fit-up, cleanup, or finishing time

• Using one flat hourly rate for everything

• Ignoring consumables, overhead, or risk buffers

• Quoting too fast just to “get the job”

The result:

• Jobs take longer than expected

• Profit disappears

• You work harder for less money

Guessing costs real money.

What This Calculator Fixes

The PWS Welding Job Pricing Calculator turns your experience into numbers.

It helps you:

• Break jobs into real fabrication tasks

• Calculate minimum and maximum labor hours

• Apply a proper shop rate

• Add markup, express work, buffers, and tax

• See a price range before committing

This is a fabrication cost estimator built for how welding jobs actually run.

How It Works (Simple)

1. Enter time estimates for each task
   (cutting, prep, fit-up, welding, cleanup, finishing, etc.)

2. Set your Shop / On-Site Hourly Rate

3. Add materials, consumables, and overhead

4. Apply markup, express work, and buffer if needed

5. Review your total price range
   Minimum and maximum, clearly shown

No spreadsheets.
No formulas.
No guessing.

What’s Included

• Digital access to the PWS Welding Job Pricing Calculator

• Task-based labor breakdown

• Min / Max time validation (prevents bad estimates)

• Automatic welding labor cost calculations

• Support for materials, consumables, and overhead

• Clear subtotal, tax, and total price range

• Built for solo welders and small shops

This is a shop rate calculator designed for real-world estimating.

Who This Is For

This is for:

• Welders pricing jobs themselves

• Fabrication shop owners

• Mobile welders and contractors

• Anyone tired of underpricing work

This is NOT for:

• Client-facing quoting tools

• Accounting software replacements

• People looking for a “one-click quote”

• Anyone who doesn’t understand fabrication work

This tool assumes trade knowledge.

Why Trust This Tool

This calculator is built from real fabrication workflows—not theory.

It reflects:

• How long tasks actually take

• Where jobs usually go over time

• What gets forgotten in fast quotes

• How profit leaks out of welding jobs

It’s designed by someone who understands welding, fabrication, and estimating from the shop floor—not a marketing desk.

Price the Job Right Before You Start

If you want to:

• Stop underpricing

• Quote with confidence

• Protect your margins

• Work fewer jobs for better money

This welding job pricing calculator belongs in your workflow.

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Disclaimer

This tool is for internal estimating only.
Final pricing decisions remain the responsibility of the user.