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The Service Radius: The Job Two Towns Over Pays Less Than the One Down the Street. Much Less.

The Service Radius: The Job Two Towns Over Pays Less Than the One Down the Street. Much Less.

The job two towns over pays less than the one down the street. Much less.

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The-Service-Radius.xlsx · 4 tabs, 23 live formulas, no macros

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Same $900 job. Fifteen minutes away it earns $73.28 an hour. Fifty minutes away it earns $35.86 — under the floor. The work didn't change; nearly two hours of crew time went into the windscreen instead of the invoice, and that cost appears on no line item anywhere in your books.

How it works

  • The Drive Cost — your crew, your loaded rate, your real cost per mile, your actual town speed: the cost of every minute of one-way distance, doubled because you drive it both ways
  • The Zone Table — the same job at four distances, judged on profit per WORKING hour (drive time in the denominator, where it belongs), each with a KEEP / PRICE IT / DECLINE verdict against your own floor — plus the exact trip charge that restores the far zone
  • The Rules — zones you keep to yourself, the trip charge written as a line item not an apology, a minimum ticket that rises with distance, clustering the far zone into one day, the estimate trip that quietly doubles all of this, and the decline script that keeps the door open

Built for

HVAC · plumbing · landscaping · mobile detailing · groomers · handymen — anyone who has ever driven an hour for a two-hour job and felt something was off.

What you get

One .xlsx file, four tabs, instant download. Excel, Google Sheets, Apple Numbers, LibreOffice. No macros, no subscription. Re-run it whenever fuel or wages move — the honest radius moves with them.

A look inside

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