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Pricing Calculator

Every number below starts as an example value, not a market price. Replace them with your own costs and rates.
1 · Job
Quantity? Blank cost / shirt? example$
Colors per location (0 = not printed)
2 · Your costs example values
Screen/setup per color?$ Per print, per color?$ Ink per print, per color?$ Labor rate?$/hr Prints per hour?per location
"Per print, per color" covers overhead like press time, flash, cure and consumables beyond ink. Set it to 0 if your labor and ink lines already cover it.
3 · Extras
2XL+ shirts in job? 2XL+ upcharge / shirt? example$
4 · Pricing
Method? Markup%?

This job

Cost per shirt
Suggested price / shirt
Job total
Profit · margin
Cost lineJobPer shirt

Quantity breaks

QtyCost / shirtPrice / shirtJob totalProfitMargin

Same colors, costs and pricing at each quantity. 2XL+ shirts are scaled to the same share of the order. Setup is spread over more shirts as quantity grows, which is why the price per shirt drops.

Quote summary



Price fairly and transparently
Good pricing covers your real costs, pays you and your team fairly, and is easy for the customer to understand. Show setup, underbase and size upcharges as clear line items, quote the same way for every customer, and explain why larger runs cost less per shirt. Customers come back to shops they trust.


This tool does arithmetic on the numbers you enter. It does not know your local market, rent, equipment, waste or misprint rate, so add those to your costs. Results are estimates, not advice.









What each box means
New to screen printing? Here is what every box above asks for, where to find the number, and a typical example. Tap any  next to a box to jump to its explanation.
Quantity
How many shirts the customer wants, for example 48.
Blank cost / shirt
What you pay for one plain shirt before printing. "Blank" just means an unprinted shirt. Look at your supplier's invoice or price list, for example $4.00.
Front colors
How many ink colors print on the front of the shirt. Count each color in the design, for example 2. Enter 0 if nothing prints there.
Back colors
How many ink colors print on the back, for example 1. Enter 0 if nothing prints there.
Left sleeve colors
How many ink colors print on the left sleeve. Most jobs leave this at 0.
Right sleeve colors
How many ink colors print on the right sleeve. Most jobs leave this at 0.
Screen/setup per color
What it costs you to make one screen and set it up on the press. Each color needs its own screen. Add up your emulsion, film and time, for example $20.
Per print, per color
A small charge for each color on each shirt to cover shop costs like electricity, the dryer and supplies other than ink. For example $0.25. Set it to 0 if your labor and ink boxes already cover these costs.
Ink per print, per color
What the ink for one color on one shirt costs you, for example $0.08. Our Ink Calculator can help: divide the price of a tub by how many prints it gives.
Labor rate
What one hour of work costs, in dollars. Use what you pay a worker, or what you want to pay yourself, for example $25.
Prints per hour
How many shirts you can print in an hour for one print spot (front, back and so on). Time yourself on a real job. 60 is a slow, safe starting guess for a manual press.
Dark garment
Tick this for dark shirts. It adds a white underbase (a white layer printed first so colors stay bright) as one extra screen for each printed spot.
2XL+ shirts in job
How many shirts in the order are size 2XL or bigger, for example 6. Big sizes usually cost you more to buy.
2XL+ upcharge / shirt
The extra amount you charge for each 2XL+ shirt, for example $2.00. Check your supplier's price for big sizes to set it.
Method
How your profit is added. "Markup" adds a percent on top of your cost. "Target margin" picks the price so profit is a set percent of the price. Example: a $10 cost with 50% markup sells for $15. That $5 profit is 33.3% of $15, so it is a 33.3% margin.
Markup / Target margin
The percent for the method above, for example 50. A margin must be under 100%.