For Welders — Solo & Small Crews

You did the job —
but what did it make you?

Talk the job from the shop or the site — steel, rod, gas, hours, fab time. DIRT shows your real hourly rate and builds the invoice before the next cut.

Free to start. No card. Know what the job made you — and get paid for it.

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DIRT PROFIT

Torres — structural rail fab

$98/hr

6 hrs · $588 net

Billed: $2,400
Steel + rod: −$1,120
Gas + consumables: −$692

Illustrative figures

Free tool

What did that job actually pay you per hour?

The invoice says one number. Your effective hourly rate — after materials, drive time, and mileage — is another. Run a job through this and see the real one.

Your trade

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Job name

Invoice total

Labor + parts + everything on the invoice, before the trip charge.

Trip charge billed

If it's already in the invoice total, leave this at 0 — don't count it twice.

Hours on site

Drive time

Round trip — plus the supply run you made mid-job.

Materials

What YOU paid — not what you billed for them.

Miles driven

Round trip, supply runs included.

Cost per mile

Default is the 2026 IRS rate ($0.725/mi) — fuel, wear, and depreciation on the truck.

Other costs (optional)

Permit, helper's pay, dump fee, rented equipment, blade you burned up.

Your job

Effective hourly rate

$0/hr

Fill in the job to see your real number.

Gross revenue Invoice + trip charge: $0.00
Materials: −$0.00
Truck & mileage 0 mi × $0.725: −$0.00
Other costs: −$0.00
Total hours On site + drive time: 0.0 hrs
Net profit: $0.00

Save this breakdown — text or email it to yourself.

Estimates only. Doesn't include overhead like insurance, licensing, or your phone bill — your true number is lower than this one.

What you get

Know the number. Get paid for it.

Three things that matter on a welding job — from the shop or the site, before the next cut.

Real profit per hour

Net after steel, rod, gas, drive time, and miles. Not a guess — what your time actually earned.
Talk the job in 60 seconds

Parts, hours, trip charges — DIRT logs it from your voice. No night of paperwork.
Invoice before you leave

Itemized and sent from your phone. Confirm every money move out loud before it goes.

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Pricing

Straight price. No games.

Solo is DIY — you run the app yourself. Leads, Ops, and Growth are done for you — we install and run your back office.

Solo

Know your real $/hr

Voice job logging + profit tracking
Bids, invoices, web app
~1 hr Talk per month
Client history
Trips & mileage tracking
Read-a-receipt (voice cost logging)

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Leads

$199/mo

Leads while you work

Website + custom domain
CRM + email follow-up
Lead forms + review requests
Jobs, bids, invoices, profit
Local SEO (trade + city)

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You did the job —but what did it make you?

What did that job actually pay you per hour?

Know the number. Get paid for it.

Real profit per hour

Talk the job in 60 seconds

Invoice before you leave

Straight price. No games.

You did the job —
but what did it make you?