What Should I Charge? — A Bookkeeping Pricing Guide | All Legal Hustles

You are not underpaid because you lack the skill. You are underpaid because nobody ever showed you the numbers.

What Should I Charge? — the guide11 pages
FormatPDF, one sitting
Worksheets you fill inIncluded
Price$9
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The real cost of a number you picked out of thin air

A rate that is $15 an hour too low does not feel like much on a single invoice. Across a year of client work it is the difference between a business that pays you properly and one you quietly resent.

The harder part is that low pricing is self-reinforcing. Underpriced work attracts clients who want everything for the fee, which fills your calendar, which leaves no room to go find better-paying work. Most bookkeepers do not price their way out of that on instinct. They need a floor, a structure, and a sentence to say when someone pushes back.

That is all this guide is. Three things, worked all the way through.

What is inside

Nine short sections, in the order you would actually use them.

  1. Why most bookkeepers underchargeFive reasons it happens, and the specific fix for each one. Almost none of them are a maths problem.
  2. The three ways to priceHourly, fixed monthly, and packages — what each one rewards, and which to reach for when.
  3. Your monthly floorHours, times your rate, plus a buffer, rounded up. Ten minutes of arithmetic you fill in on the page. No package of yours goes below it.
  4. Build your three packagesStarter, Growth, Premium, with example ranges and the four rules that make a three-tier offer actually convert.
  5. What goes in each packageFive dials — transactions, accounts, reports, response time, calls — set once so the tiers build themselves. Plus what never belongs inside a monthly fee.
  6. Signs your pricing is too lowSix of them, including the effective hourly test that tells you the truth when your instincts will not.
  7. When and how to raise pricesThe four-line message, the notice period, and two replies for when someone pushes back.
  8. Quick-start checklistThe whole thing in six steps, about forty-five minutes, one sitting.

Who this is for

A good fit if you are

  • Starting a bookkeeping business and have no idea what to charge
  • Already working but suspect you are too cheap
  • About to quote someone this week
  • Moving from hourly to packages

Not for you if you want

  • Training in bookkeeping itself
  • Help getting clients in the first place
  • Tax, legal, or financial advice
  • A certification course

What happens after you buy

1. You pay $9 on the next page. It takes about thirty seconds.

2. An email arrives with a one-time access code.

3. You enter the code and read the guide.

The access code exists so the file cannot be passed around the internet the week after launch. It also means you should add [email protected] to your contacts before you buy, so the email lands in your inbox rather than your promotions tab.

Questions people ask first

Is this US-specific?
The rate ranges are US figures. The method — floor, packages, quote — works anywhere, but you would want to sanity-check the numbers against your own market.
I am not certified. Is it still useful?
Yes. Certification is one of the things that moves you within a range, and the guide covers where it does and does not matter. The floor calculation does not depend on it.
How long does it take to get through?
About fifteen minutes straight through. It is built so that in roughly twenty you have an actual number written down, which means stopping to fill in the worksheets on pages 5, 6 and 10.
Why is it only $9?
Because it is a short guide that does one job, and pricing it like a course would be the exact mistake it is telling you not to make.
Something went wrong with my order.
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Decide your number this week

You will quote someone eventually. It may as well be a figure you worked out rather than one you hoped they would accept.

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All dollar figures in this guide and on this page are illustrative examples, not guarantees of income or results. Pricing and packaging guidance only — not tax, legal, or financial advice.

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