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The day you start paying somebody else, the sum stops being obvious — a wage is not the cost of an hour, and the gap between the two is where the money goes without anybody seeing it. Chalkline adds the payroll taxes, insurance and overhead on top and gives you the real figure.

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Hourly rate calculator for contractors

You put in

What you pay your crew, what the business costs to run each month, and the hours you actually bill.

You get

Your break-even hourly rate, the rate to charge for the profit you want, and a price book built from it.

If you pay your crew overtime, or they take tips, their 2026 W-2s need two new numbers. Box 12 Helper works out each person's qualified overtime and tips from the hours and pay you already have, and shows the math week by week.

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W-2 box 12 overtime and tips calculator

You put in

A year of your workers' hours and pay, from your time clock or our template, and the tips they reported.

You get

Each worker's qualified overtime (box 12, TT), tips (TP) and box 14b code, with the math for every week shown, ready for your payroll company or W-2 software.

Money comes in a job at a time and nobody withholds your tax. Benchmark takes off the bills due, the tax you should be holding and the cushion you never want to go under, and tells you what is actually safe to spend today — with your household budget one tap away.

Budgeting for small business owners

You put in

Your bank transactions (a file from your bank, or typed in) and the bills you pay each month.

You get

What is safe to spend today, tax set aside as money comes in, and your cash flow 13 weeks ahead, for the business and your household.

No more group texts to tell your crew when they work. Lineup puts the week on everybody's phone and tells each person about their own changes the way you pick — so nobody misses a job because a message got lost.

Staff scheduling for small businesses

You put in

Who works which shifts this week.

You get

Everyone sees their shifts on their own phone, and each person is told about their own changes the way you pick. No app to download, one price for the whole team.

People look you up before they trust you with a job. Sitework builds your website while you answer plain questions — your hours, how to reach you, what you do — made for phones and ready for Google — from $29 a month, or yours outright for a one-off price.

Custom websites and apps for small businesses

You put in

Plain answers about your business, or, for a custom build, what you need it to do.

You get

A website that works on phones and is set up to be found on Google, or an app built from scratch for you.