Free Tools

Free tools for sign shop owners

Calculators we are building for our own planning and opening up to the trade. The proof templates are live now; the calculators are in the works.

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Designer Pay Check

What does a graphic designer actually earn in your metro? Enter a city and experience level and see the wage percentiles from federal employment data, then flip to the owner view for the fully loaded cost of that seat.

  • Employee and owner views
  • 518 metro areas, 51 states
  • Benefits, software and idle-time loading
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Outsourcing Savings Calculator

Enter the job type, hours required and your designer's hourly wage. See the cost of doing it in house against each Trade Desk Graphics plan, by hour, day, week, month and year, and by state.

  • Toggle any plan, all price points visible
  • Base wage only, no hidden loading
  • Per-job and annual views
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Sign Square Footage Calculator

Quick area math for permit applications: letter sets, cabinets and multi-element signs, with the common jurisdiction methods side by side.

  • Bounding-box and per-element methods
  • Exports to the permit drawing ticket
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