Free Electrical Estimate Calculator

Yes. There is no subscription, no trial period, and no card required, for the electrician installing it or the homeowner using it. Homeowners see a real price range with no email required to see a number, and electrical companies who install it on their own site keep it free forever.

No. Enter your business name and email once to get your embed code, hosted link, and QR code, that is the whole setup. There is no dashboard to log into and no account to manage.

Every submission is emailed to you instantly, with the homeowner's name, contact info, the job they picked, and the price range their answers produced. Lead emails start once you click the one-time confirmation link we send when you set up your embed. The calculator still works for homeowners before that, it just is not emailing you yet.

Yes. Set a low-to-high range for the everyday jobs like outlets, fixtures, and troubleshooting, and a range for each type of the bigger jobs, a 100 or 200 amp panel, a level 2 EV charger with or without panel work, a partial or whole-home rewire, a portable or standby generator. Every estimate your calculator gives then runs on your numbers. Leave any of them blank and that job falls back to a solid national default.

The credit line is what keeps the calculator free. Keep it in place and the calculator, the leads, and the emails stay free forever.

Most residential electricians bill somewhere between $75 and $200 an hour, with the higher end in big metros and for a licensed master electrician. Many shops price by the job rather than the hour using a flat-rate book, so a homeowner sees one number for the task instead of a running clock. A service call often carries a trip or diagnostic fee, and emergency or after-hours work adds a premium. This calculator prices by the job, which is how most homeowners actually get quoted.

It depends on the electrical load of the home. A 100 amp service covers a smaller home with gas heat and cooking and no big electric loads. A 200 amp service is the modern standard and is what most homes need once you add central air, an electric range or dryer, a hot tub, or an EV charger. If breakers trip under normal use, the panel is full with no open slots, or you are planning any of those additions, a 200 amp upgrade is usually the right call. The calculator prices both so the homeowner sees the gap.

A level 2 home charger commonly runs $500 to $1,500 installed when the panel has room and the run to the garage is short. It climbs to roughly $1,500 to $4,000 when the panel is full and needs a new circuit or a subpanel, when the run is long, or when the panel itself has to be upgraded to carry the load. The charger hardware, the wire run, the breaker, and any panel work are what move the number, which is why the calculator asks whether panel work is needed.

Most homes do not, but some do. Knob-and-tube or cloth-wrapped wiring, aluminum branch wiring, two-prong ungrounded outlets throughout, breakers that trip for no clear reason, or scorch marks at outlets are the signs that point to a rewire. A partial rewire replaces the problem circuits; a whole-home rewire replaces everything and is usually done when the walls are already open or the wiring is a safety issue across the house. The calculator prices a partial and a whole-home rewire separately because they are far apart.

It comes down to how much you want automated. A portable generator with an inlet box and an interlock kit is the budget path: you roll it out, plug it in, and start it by hand when the power goes, commonly $600 to $1,800 for the electrical work. A standby generator is permanently installed, runs on natural gas or propane, and starts itself within seconds of an outage through an automatic transfer switch, commonly $6,000 to $15,000 installed depending on the unit size and gas line. The calculator prices both paths.

Often yes. Most jurisdictions require a permit and an inspection for panel upgrades, service changes, new circuits, EV chargers, generators, and any rewire. A like-for-like device swap such as replacing a single outlet or switch usually does not. Permit and inspection costs vary by city and are part of the quote a licensed electrician gives, which is one reason the on-site number can sit above a rough estimate. The calculator's ranges assume permitted work where a permit applies.

The condition behind the wall moves an electrical price more than the fixture does. Adding a circuit is quick when the panel has an open slot and the run is short; the same job turns into a bigger one when the panel is full, the grounding is out of date, or the wire has to cross a finished floor. The age of the service, the utility's role in a meter change, local permit costs, and whether old wiring is safe to reuse all shift the total. That is why the calculator gives a range and treats the on-site visit as the exact figure.

A complete estimate covers the labor, the devices and materials, the breaker and wire, any permit and inspection fee, and cleanup. For a bigger job it also accounts for the panel or service work the load requires, any grounding or bonding brought up to current code, patching where a wall had to be opened, and utility coordination on a meter or service change. The by-type pricing in the calculator shows how the scope behind the wall, not just the device on it, moves the number.

Treat it as a solid ballpark that gets a homeowner oriented before anyone visits. It prices the job from the type of work and a few follow-up answers, on regional defaults or the electrician's own numbers. An in-home visit opens the panel, checks the grounding and the existing wiring, and accounts for the run and local permit costs, which is what turns the ballpark into a firm price. The calculator's job is to give a real number fast and start the conversation, not to replace the site visit.

No. The calculator shows a real price range on screen from the homeowner's answers before it asks for anything. Contact details are only requested if the homeowner wants that estimate sent to an electrician or wants a call back. That is deliberate, a tool that shows a number first earns more finished submissions than one that gates the result behind a form.