Hours or dollars
Estimate labor in hours and apply a rate, or use fixed-cost rows for materials, vendors, permits, and other expenses.
Estimate honestly.
Plan confidently.
Break the job into smaller parts, enter a best-case, likely, and worst-case figure, and get a useful planning range instead of one fragile guess.
Your planning numbers stay on this device. Tasks, rates, assumptions, and client details are calculated locally. Only defaults you choose to save are remembered in this browser.
01
Name the estimate
Enough context to recognize the plan later.
02
Set the planning details
These identify the estimate and control hour-based tasks.
For a fixed-cost row, enter dollars. For an hours row, enter hours and the tool applies the hourly rate above.
03
Break the project into parts
Three smaller estimates usually beat one big guess.
04
Add a practical buffer
Contingency covers normal surprises; it should not hide known work.
05
Write down what the range assumes
This is what makes an estimate useful instead of vague.
Expected planning cost$0.00
The print view is a clean U.S. Letter planning document. In the print window, choose Save as PDF.
Range before promise01 02 03
Useful uncertainty, clearly shown.
Three-point planning
The expected figure weights your likely case more heavily while keeping the low and high cases visible.
Ready for the next step
Once the scope is settled, move from this planning range to a firm quote rather than quietly treating the estimate as a promise.
Project estimate questions.
How is the expected value calculated?
For each row, the tool uses the three-point PERT formula: low plus four times likely plus high, divided by six. It is a planning aid, not a guarantee.
What happens if I enter the three numbers out of order?
The tool sorts them into low, likely, and high order for the calculation and flags the row so you can correct the labels before sharing the document.
What does Save my defaults remember?
Your business name, contact, currency, hourly rate, contingency, workday length, and usual next-step text. It does not save clients, projects, task rows, dates, or assumptions.