About The Job Numbers
Why does this site exist?
Two problems, one site. First: owner-operator tradespeople systematically under-price jobs — not because they can’t do math, but because the honest inputs (burdened labor cost, overhead recovery, current material prices) are scattered or stale. Every pricing article on the internet shows a formula with 2021 numbers typed into it. Second: choosing field-service software means reading comparison pages written by the vendors themselves, with prices that were wrong the month after publication.
Our fix is structural, not editorial: a weekly verification pipeline that re-checks every price and logs every change in public. We don’t promise opinions you’ll agree with. We promise the numbers are current, dated, and traceable.
How does this site make money?
Affiliate commissions from some software vendors, disclosed on every page that carries them. Three structural guarantees keep that honest: every comparison includes at least one vendor who pays us nothing, rankings are computed from disclosed criteria independent of payout, and the change log reports vendor price hikes whether or not that vendor pays us. A comparison site you can’t trust is worthless — neutrality is the product.
What this site will never do
- Publish a price without a verification date attached.
- Present user-reported figures as verified retail pricing.
- Rank a vendor higher because their bounty is bigger.
- Pad a 200-word answer into a 2,000-word listicle.
- Claim “real-time” anything. Weekly is the honest promise.
The Job Numbers Weekly
The Job Numbers Weekly — the numbers that changed, every Monday.
Signups open at launch. One email a week: price changes, material deltas, one calculator. No vendor spam. What’s in the Weekly →