FREE ELECTRICAL PRICE LIST TEMPLATE
Free electrician price list template — and how to set every price on it
An electrician price list in Word and PDF, filled in for an electrical business: the service call, the hourly rate, outlets and fixtures by the piece, circuits and panel upgrades, permits and parts — every line explained, and when to show the prices on your website.
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The short answer
An electrician's price list is the menu of what you charge: the service call, the hourly rate with a minimum, the jobs you can price by the piece, the panel upgrade as a flat labor rate, and the rule for parts and permits. It needs your business details and license number, the date the prices took effect, your service area, how to book, the list itself — service, what's included, unit, price — and the fine print: the deposit on panel and service work, the after-hours rate, and tax.
Price by the piece wherever the job is the same in every house: “outlet, switch or dimmer — $150–$225 each” and “recessed lights — $150–$200 per light” are lines a homeowner can count before they call. Keep the hourly line for troubleshooting — the open neutral nobody can find until the attic is open — and put a minimum on it.
The list is a guide; the quote is the price. Say so — “every job is quoted in writing before we start” — and price every quote from the list, so two customers with the same panel get the same number.
FREE TEMPLATE · WORD AND PDF
The electrical price list template, filled in
Below is the template filled in for Current Electric LLC, a fictional electrical business — the same one whose work order our electrical work order template draws, so you can see its lines priced straight off this list. The download is the same sheet with [bracketed] lines to replace — free, no email address, no sign-up.
Example · fictional business
Current Electric LLC Phoenix, AZ (602) 555-0184 · office@currentelectric.example License # ROC 000000 (example) | PRICE LIST |
Prices valid From September 1, 2026 Every job is quoted in writing before we start Minimum charge $125 per visit (the service call) | To book Call or text (602) 555-0184 office@currentelectric.example Free quotes for panel and circuit work — we reply within one business day |
| Service | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Service call / diagnostic We come out, trace the fault and quote the fix. Taken off the job if you go ahead the same visit. | per visit | $125 |
| Troubleshooting and repairs Billed by the hour from arrival, one-hour minimum, confirmed before we start. For the work nobody can size until the wall is open. | per hour | $110 |
| Outlet, switch or dimmer — add or replace Standard, GFCI or USB. New runs longer than 15 ft quoted on site. | each | $150–$225 |
| Ceiling fan or light fixture install On an existing box. New box or bracing on its own line. | each | $175–$250 |
| Recessed lights LED cans in an accessible ceiling, four or more. Price per light. | per light | $150–$200 |
| New dedicated circuit — EV charger, range, dryer, hot tub Breaker, wire and box, run up to 50 ft. Labor and materials. | per circuit | $650–$950 |
| Panel upgrade to 200 A — labor Disconnect, new panel and meter base, re-land and label every circuit, test. Panel and breakers on their own line. | per job | $1,450 |
| Whole-home surge protector Added at the panel during a panel job. The unit; the labor is in the panel line. | per unit | $165 |
| After-hours / emergency call-out Evenings, weekends and holidays — replaces the service call. Work at the usual rates. | per visit | $225 |
| Permit and inspection Panel changes, new circuits and service work. We pull it; you pay what the city charges. | per job | at cost |
| Parts and materials Panels, breakers, wire, boxes, fixtures — itemized on your quote and invoice. | per job | cost + 25% |
Deposit
A deposit toward the panel, breakers and materials books a panel upgrade or a service change; the balance is due when the inspection passes. Pay by card, check or bank transfer.
Sales tax
Sales tax, 8% on parts (example). Labor is not taxed.
Every figure on the example is an example, not a price guide — use your own rates; our guide to how much an electrician charges per hour has the 2026 US ranges. The Word file is a standard .docx you can edit in Word, Google Docs or any app that opens Word documents; the PDF prints as-is.
Your prices and your website, one place
Start your electrical website — your price book lives beside it
Add your business name and your town, and Zarla builds your electrical website from this one line. The same dashboard keeps a private price book — every service with its price and unit — and builds your quotes and invoices from it.
Already have a website? Bring it across →Zarla keeps your old page addresses where it can and redirects the ones that change, helping you keep the Google standing you've built.
LINE BY LINE
What goes on an electrician's price list
Every line on the template, in order, and what to write on it.
| The line | What to put there |
|---|---|
| Your business details and license | Business name, phone, email, website — and your state or city electrical license number, which most states require on your paperwork. The list travels; it has to say who you are. |
| The date, and the service area | When these prices took effect and how far you travel. The date is what lets you raise prices without an argument. |
| Prices valid, and the rule | How long the prices hold, the minimum charge, and the line that every job is quoted in writing before you start. |
| How to book | Phone, email, website — and how fast you reply to a quote request. Panel and circuit work is booked by the customer who gets an answer first. |
| The service call | Your first line. What the visit includes, and whether it comes off the job if the customer goes ahead — the two things every caller asks. |
| The hourly line, with a minimum | For troubleshooting and repairs nobody can size until the wall is open. Say when it applies and the minimum; it's the line that keeps the flat prices honest. |
| Jobs by the piece | One line per thing you can count — outlets, switches, fixtures, recessed lights, circuits — with what's included and what makes it more. It's the line that lets a customer budget before they call. |
| Flat-rate labor, with equipment on its own line | The panel upgrade or the service change as a labor price; the panel, the breakers and the meter base at cost plus markup on the parts line, so the flat rate stays flat. |
| Parts, permits, after hours and the deposit | Parts at cost plus your markup, permits at cost, what an evening or weekend call-out costs, and what books a panel job. |
| Tax | Whether your prices include tax or add it, and on what. In the US, whether sales tax applies to your work — and whether it falls on the materials, the labor, both or neither — depends on your state, so keep materials and labor on separate lines and check your state's revenue department or your accountant. Outside the US: a GST-registered business in Australia or New Zealand and a VAT-registered business in the UK or EU show consumers prices that include the GST or VAT, and show the tax on the invoice the same way. Confirm the details with your accountant. |
STEP BY STEP
How to make an electrician price list
An evening with the last twenty invoices and your supply house's price book.
List every job you've billed this year
Outlets, fixtures, fans, recessed lights, circuits, panels, troubleshooting — from the invoices, not from memory. Group the ones you do most; they're the by-the-piece lines.
Work out your hourly cost
A year of costs — your wage, the van, insurance, tools, the license, software, continuing education — divided by the hours you can bill (about 1,000 to 1,200 a year for a solo electrician). That's break-even; add your margin.
Turn the countable jobs into unit prices
Time your last ten outlets and your last five fixtures. Hours × your rate plus the typical part, rounded, a range where the run or the box varies.
Set the service call, the hourly line and the panel labor
The service call covers the drive and the diagnosis; the hourly line, with a minimum, covers troubleshooting; the panel upgrade is a flat labor price with the equipment on its own line. Check all three against the going rates.
Add parts, permits and after hours
Parts at cost plus a markup, permits at cost, an emergency call-out that replaces the service call. Write what's included under every line — the run length, the box, the breaker.
Date it and save it where your quotes are
Put the date on it, review it every January and after a copper or breaker price rise, and keep the working copy in your quoting tool so every quote reads from the same numbers.
How to set the prices on an electrician's price list
Start from your costs, not the competition. Add up a year of running the business — wages including your own, the van, fuel, insurance, tools, the license and its continuing education, software, advertising — and divide by the hours you'll actually bill. A solo electrician bills far fewer than forty hours a week once quoting, driving and supply-house runs come out. That number plus your margin is the rate every unit price is built from. For what's normal in your area, how much an electrician charges per hour has the 2026 US ranges and a calculator.
Unit prices for what you can count; hourly for what you can't. An outlet, a fixture, a recessed light or a dedicated circuit is close to the same job in every house — time ten of them, average, and the unit price rewards you for being fast. An intermittent fault isn't, so it goes on the hourly line with a minimum and “confirmed before we start” next to it.
Keep equipment off the flat rate. A 200 A panel is one price from one maker and another from the next, and a meter base is a separate item. Price the labor flat, list parts at cost plus a markup, and the quote itemizes them — the customer sees where the money went, and the flat rate never has to change when copper does.
Make the service call do its job. It pays for the drive and the diagnosis, and it filters the customers who want a free opinion. Saying it comes off the job if they go ahead the same visit turns it from a fee into a reason to say yes.
Licensing and permits on the list. In the US most states and many cities license electricians and electrical businesses and want the license number on quotes and invoices, and a panel change, a new circuit or a service upgrade needs a permit and an inspection almost everywhere. Putting the license at the top and “permit at cost” on the list says you do both — which is the line a careful homeowner, and their home inspector, is looking for. Check your state licensing board and your city's permit office.
Raise prices on a date, not in an argument. Date the list, review it every January and after a supply-house increase, and send regulars the new list before it starts. Customers accept a dated rise; they argue with a surprise one.
Know your tax rules. In the US, whether sales tax applies to your work — and whether it falls on the materials, the labor, both or neither — depends on your state, so keep materials and labor on separate lines and check your state's revenue department or your accountant. Outside the US: a GST-registered business in Australia or New Zealand and a VAT-registered business in the UK or EU show consumers prices that include the GST or VAT, and show the tax on the invoice the same way. Confirm the details with your accountant.
Keep your working electrical price list in Zarla's price book
A printed electrical price list is for the customer. The one that runs your business is the private version — the price you actually charge for each service, the unit, and the note to yourself about why — and it belongs where your quotes are written, not in the glovebox.
If your electrical website is on Zarla, the quoting tool keeps a price book in the same dashboard: every service you sell with one price, a range or a “from” price, per job, hour, square foot or your own unit, and a private one-line note. Zarla shows what you last charged for each service, lists the services on your website that don't have a price yet, and lets you add a line to a quote or an invoice straight from the book — so a quote takes two taps per line and the arithmetic is done for you. The book never appears on your website: your site shows what you do, the book holds what you charge, and the quote is where a customer sees the two meet. In the US, several trades can start their book from a typical price range in one of our published pricing guides, which you accept, edit or dismiss; Zarla never sets a price on its own.
Want to see the website first? Browse electrical website templates or see how Zarla builds electrical websites. Still setting up? Read how to start an electrical business and write your electrical business plan; for the going rates, see how much an electrician charges per hour; to fill the calendar, SEO for electricians.
The whole paper trail for an electrical job: the electrical work order template → the electrical estimate template, then how to write a quote → the electrical work order → the electrical invoice template → how to write a receipt. For any other trade, the free price list template has the same sheet with a painting job as the example.
Electrician price lists: common questions
Your business details and license number; the date the prices took effect and your service area; how to book and how fast you reply; the service call; the hourly rate with a minimum; one line per job you can price by the piece — outlets, switches, fixtures, recessed lights, circuits — with what's included; the panel upgrade as a flat labor price with equipment on its own line; parts at cost plus markup and permits at cost; the emergency call-out; and the fine print — deposit, travel and tax. Add the line that every job is quoted in writing.
By the job wherever you can count it in advance — per outlet, per fixture, per light, per circuit, and a flat labor price for a panel upgrade — because customers can budget for it and a fast electrician earns more, not less. By the hour, with a minimum, for troubleshooting nobody can size until the wall is open. Most electrician price lists carry both, and the quote says which lines are which.
It varies by area; the example list charges $125 and takes it off the job if the customer goes ahead the same visit. Our pricing guide has the 2026 US ranges for the service call, the hourly rate and the common unit prices — set yours from your own costs and check it against those.
The price list is your standard prices for every service, published once and valid until you change it. The quote is the price for one customer's job — this panel, these circuits, this permit — worked out from the list, and it's the quote that sets the price for that job. Say on the list that every job is quoted in writing.
As a rule, not as a number: the panel upgrade as a flat labor price, and “panel, breakers and meter base at cost plus 25%”, itemized on the quote. Panels differ by maker, spaces and main breaker, and a fixed number on the list goes stale with the next price rise.
The flat ones, yes — the service call, the hourly rate, outlets and fixtures as ranges, the panel labor — and “from” prices for the rest. A page with real units gets fewer calls, from people who've already decided you're in their budget; a page with no prices loses the ones who would have paid you. Keep the full working list, with your margins, private.
In the US there is no general rule that a service business must publish a price list, though some trades have their own — auto repair shops in some states must post their labor rate, and in many must give a written estimate before work starts. In Australia, consumer law says any price you show consumers must be the total price including GST; in the UK and EU, a price shown to consumers should include VAT. Check your local rules.
Say which, on the list. Businesses selling to homeowners usually show the price the customer pays; businesses selling to other businesses often show prices before tax. In the US, whether sales tax applies to your work — and whether it falls on the materials, the labor, both or neither — depends on your state, so keep materials and labor on separate lines and check your state's revenue department or your accountant. Outside the US: a GST-registered business in Australia or New Zealand and a VAT-registered business in the UK or EU show consumers prices that include the GST or VAT, and show the tax on the invoice the same way. Confirm the details with your accountant.
Yes. The electrical price list template downloads free as a Word document and a PDF — no email address, no sign-up. Edit the Word file in Word, Google Docs or any app that opens Word documents, or print the PDF and fill it in by hand. There's no Excel version; if you'd rather work in a spreadsheet, the same three columns — service, unit, price — are all it needs.
A private one. If your electrical website is on Zarla, the quoting tool keeps a price book in the same dashboard: every service with one price, a range or a “from” price and its unit, plus a private note to yourself. You add lines to quotes and invoices straight from it, and it never appears on your website. For a printed list to hand customers, use the template above.
Quote electrical jobs from your own price book
Add your business name and your town, and Zarla builds your electrical website from that one line — with a private price book, quotes, invoices and receipts in the same dashboard.
Already have a website? Bring it across →Zarla keeps your old page addresses where it can and redirects the ones that change, helping you keep the Google standing you've built.