IN THIS PRICE BOOK ▾
The whole book as two spreadsheets that open in Excel or Google Sheets: 45 repairs (hours, parts, price, published range, sources) and 107 parts (your cost, price to customer, sources). No email needed.
An electrical price book is the list of service jobs you sell at one fixed price, each built from the hours it takes and the parts it uses. Quoting from one means two electricians give the same price for the same panel swap, and the homeowner hears the price before you open the panel.
We researched this book for residential service electricians in October 2026. Part costs come mostly from a distributor's public web prices, checked against retail listings; hours from forum estimators, contractor pages and cost guides; each repair price was checked against published price ranges for the same job. No electrician has reviewed it yet, so treat it as a starting point for your own costs, hours and market.
How each repair is priced. Parts at book price, plus hours at your rate.
Parts are priced on a sliding scale by cost: about three times cost on a $2 device, about double around $100, and 1.4 to 1.6 times on panels and EV chargers. Wire sold by the foot is 1.6 times. The electrical markup chart shows the scale step by step.
What every repair assumes
Small jobs (an outlet, a switch, a breaker) are priced as work done once you're already there. The book has a $129 service call or diagnostic fee for the trip.
The 45 repairs, by group. Hours, parts, price and the published range.
"Parts" is what the parts sell for at book prices. "Published range" is what cost guides and published electrician price lists show for the same job. At $110 an hour, 37 of the 45 land inside it; the rest are marked.
Three come in under the range at $110 and five over. A standard outlet and a standard breaker are under because published prices for a one-item visit include the electrician's call-out minimum, which these don't: bill the $129 service call with them, or raise the hours if you don't charge one. A new ceiling light and switch misses by a dollar. Over: ground rods, because the published figure is for one rod and this repair sets two, which most inspectors expect; the ceiling fan where a light is, which includes a fan-rated brace and a shop-supplied fan; the vanity light, which includes a shop-supplied three-light fixture (many customers bring their own, so quote the customer-supplied fixture repair instead); the outdoor GFCI outlet, which includes a weatherproof in-use cover and a 20-amp weather-resistant GFCI; and the 50-amp EV outlet, which includes the GFCI breaker the code calls for on it and an EV-grade receptacle, where published prices are for a plain 240-volt outlet.
The same book at your rate. Change one number and every repair moves.
Homeowner cost guides put electricians at about $50 to $130 an hour, independent shops mostly charge $75 to $150, and metro shops report up to $165. We found no independent survey of billed shop rates, so pick yours from your own costs. Here's what six common jobs come to at three rates. To build your rate, use the labor rate calculator; the math is the same for any trade.
Labor and plan in the book (change them to yours)
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A list of the service jobs an electrical shop sells at a fixed price, each built from the labor hours and parts the job takes. Electricians quote from the book instead of working out a price on site, so the same job gets the same price.
This page has one: 45 flat-rate electrical repairs and 107 parts, free to download as spreadsheets with no email. It's a starting point; replace the part costs, hours and rate with your own.
In this book a 200-amp panel replaced in the same location is 8 hours plus about $1,495 in parts and a permit allowance at book prices, which comes to $2,379 at $110 an hour. Published ranges for the same job run about $1,400 to $2,800, and many contractors quote more. A service upgrade with a new meter base is a separate, bigger job.
Charging one set price per job instead of hours plus materials. The price covers the expected hours, the parts and the overhead of the trip, so the customer knows the price before the work starts and the shop isn't penalized for working fast.
List the jobs you do most, time each one, list the parts each uses at your supply house cost, mark the parts up (many shops use a sliding scale: high on cheap devices, lower on panels and chargers), add hours times your billed rate, and round. Review it every few months as copper and equipment prices move.
$110 an hour for standard labor, $165 after hours and $60 for an apprentice, with a $129 service call. Change the rate to yours and every repair price changes with it.
Turning this into your price book. Four passes, an afternoon each.
Costs, codes and licensing here are US. Canadian shops work under the CEC and will see different part costs.
Sources the ranges and hours were checked against include HomeGuide's electrician cost guides, HomeAdvisor, estimating threads on Mike Holt's forum, EC&M on labor units and a Virginia contractor's published plan prices. Every repair's own sources are in the spreadsheet.