Traceable sources
Published figures should link to their origin and state the date, scope and limitations.
About Price The Job
Built for the people pricing the work
Price The Job is a new UK publication about trade rates, quoting and the business decisions behind a sound price.
Who runs Price The Job?
Hi, I’m Jacob Orsborn-Smith. I started Price The Job to make practical rate and pricing information easier for UK tradespeople to find and judge.
I also run Sitework, a web design business serving UK trades. The two are separate projects. Sitework does not decide which businesses or sources Price The Job covers, and this publication does not hide that connection.
Price The Job is new. Where evidence is incomplete, the page should say so instead of dressing an estimate up as fact.
Clear method
Guide ranges, survey findings and worked examples are labelled so readers know what they are looking at.
No pay to rank
Businesses cannot buy a place in a rate table or pay to change an editorial conclusion.
Where the guidance comes from
No single source gives the full picture. Good pricing guidance needs several kinds of evidence and an honest account of their limits.
ONS earnings and labour market releases can provide context, but employed pay is not the same as a self-employed charge-out rate.
Trade bodies, marketplaces and established publishers show indicative ranges that can be compared and dated.
Forums and practitioner commentary help identify regional factors and common pricing problems. Anecdotes are not treated as a national average.
When the survey goes live, its methodology, sample size and collection dates will be stated with the results.