New American Tradesman™Tools
The Clarity Smart Tools suite: calculators built for trade business decisions, not spreadsheets.
Bid Margin Calculator
Check a proposed bid against your target margin before you send it: your actual margin at that price, the minimum price that hits your target, and the dollar gap if it falls short.
Open Bid Margin Calculator→Break-Even Calculator
A fixed-cost tracker, break-even calculator, profit margin calculator, and pricing target tool — built for pricing real jobs, not spreadsheets.
Open Break-Even Calculator→Change Order Profitability Calculator
Find out whether a change order actually helped your bottom line: its own margin, the dollar profit it added or cost you, and your blended margin on the whole job once it's folded in.
Open Change Order Profitability Calculator→Davis-Bacon Certified Payroll Calculator
Calculate required hourly cost, regular and overtime labor cost, and crew totals from a prevailing wage rate and fringe benefit rate you enter. Not a source of official wage rates: confirm your actual wage determination on SAM.gov before you rely on this.
Open Davis-Bacon Certified Payroll Calculator→Labor Burden Calculator
Find the true fully-loaded hourly cost of an employee: payroll taxes, workers' comp, benefits, and non-billable time, not just the wage on their paycheck.
Open Labor Burden Calculator→Markup vs. Margin Calculator
Convert between markup and margin and see both side by side. Confusing a 30% markup with a 30% margin is one of the most common pricing mistakes in the trades, and this shows exactly what each one actually produces.
Open Markup vs. Margin Calculator→Retainage Calculator
See how much of a contract or invoice is actually payable now versus held back as retainage, and what that delay means for your cash flow if you enter a timeline.
Open Retainage Calculator→Tradesman Interview Guide
A 30-minute structured interview framework for hiring tradespeople: what to ask, how to score answers, and where candidates commonly slip. Pick a trade below for role-specific technical questions and red flags.
Open Tradesman Interview Guide→