Know your break-even before you bid the paint job.
CutInMath turns square feet, linear feet, door counts, coats and prep into painter-hours, crew days, a break-even price and a recommended job price. Then it prints a proposal you can send the same day.
No account. No upload. Bids are saved in your browser.
Labor hours decide whether a job pays
Prep, cutting in, ladders and extra coats add labor hours that a price per square foot hides. CutInMath shows the hours line by line, so you can see the problem before you sign.
Every surface, every coat
Walls, ceilings, textured walls, exterior siding, trim, base and doors, each with its own production rate and number of coats.
Prep is its own line
Drop cloths, pole sanding, spot-patching and spot-priming are priced separately instead of being buried in the wall rate.
Break-even and quote check
Enter the price you plan to quote. CutInMath tells you if it is below break-even or under your target profit.
"What if we're slower?"
A sensitivity table shows your profit if the crew runs 10% or 20% slower or faster than planned.
Rates you can see and change
Every starting production rate shows the public source it came from. Change any rate on any bid.
Proposal and real hours
Print a clean proposal with scope and price. Pro adds your logo and tracks the hours you actually log against the bid.
Private by design
There is no CutInMath server holding your numbers. The calculator runs in your browser and saves bids there. Your client list, wages and margins are not uploaded anywhere.
It also works offline after the first visit, so you can finish a bid on site.
Free to use, $39/month for Pro
The calculator, break-even check, sensitivity table, proposals, bid revisions and won/lost notes are free, with up to 3 saved bids. Pro adds unlimited bids, branded proposals, your own rate library, actual-hours tracking, backups and CSV export.
Questions
Where do the production rates come from?
From published example rates by SERVVIAN and the medium-crew column of Krib's production rate table, each listed in the production rates guide. Both say your own crews' timed rates are the ones to price with, and so do we. You can change any of them.
Does it work out gallons of paint?
No. Enter materials as a dollar amount for the job or as a percentage of labor. CutInMath focuses on the labor math and the margin.
Is the recommended price what I should charge?
It is the price that covers your labor, materials and overhead and leaves your target profit, based on what you entered. Your market, the client and the scope decide the final number.
Do I need an account?
No. Open the calculator and start. Pro is unlocked with a license key you paste into Settings.