What should a handyman charge in Wise County, TX?
Planning estimate for a one-person handyman business in Wise County, TX: $75 to $102 an hour. It's a starting point built from public wage and price data with our calculator's formula. It is not the market rate, and it is not what any one handyman charges.
The math
Your rate is what the year costs you, divided by the hours you actually bill. Here it is with Wise County's numbers:
| Step | Low end | High end |
|---|---|---|
| Your pay (employee wage for this work in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX) | $48,860 median | $60,940 top quarter starts here |
| Overhead ($33,148 national, adjusted to local prices at 103.1) | $34,173 | $34,173 |
| Profit 15% + PTO 10% + warranty 3% + business taxes 12% | +40% | +40% |
| Yearly total to cover | $116,246 | $133,158 |
| Billed hours a year (hours on the job × 52) | 30 × 52 = 1,560 | 25 × 52 = 1,300 |
| Hourly rate | $75 | $102 |
The low end pays you the median wage and bills 30 hours a week. The high end pays you where the top quarter of wages starts and bills 25, because every hour on the job takes about another hour running the business.
Who you'd be working for in Wise County
- Median household income: $93,421, 19% above Texas ($78,476). Census ACS 2020-2024
- Median home value: $304,900, 7% above Texas ($283,800). Census ACS 2020-2024
- Half the homes here were built before 1996, newer than Texas (1992). Census ACS 2020-2024
- Homes lived in by their owner: 81.4%, 30% above Texas (62.6%). Census ACS 2020-2024
- Population: 75,005. Census ACS 2020-2024
Make it your number
Your insurance, truck, hours and pay target are what count. Run the free hourly rate calculator with your real costs, then build your prices in the Rate Book. How to price handyman jobs walks through the method.
Where these numbers come from
- Wages: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, occupation 49-9071 Maintenance and Repair Workers, General, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX. The top-quarter figure is in the BLS data file.
- Local prices: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, all items index 103.1 (US = 100).
- Overhead, hours and percentages: median answers from members using our hourly rate calculator, the same formula that tool uses. National, not local.