70 min · 30 video lectures · quizzes · assignments · workbook
About this course
Most electricians are great technicians and terrible business owners. They underprice jobs, lose track of materials, ignore NEC derating rules on bids, and wonder why the bank account never grows even when they're slammed with work. This course fixes that.
Why it pays for itself:
Built for working electricians and small electrical contractors — not consultants, not theorists — this course walks you through every phase of running a profitable commercial electrical contracting business: setting up your pricing model, winning jobs against licensed competitors, managing field operations safely and compliantly, and turning gross revenue into actual take-home money.
Every lesson is anchored to the Commercial Electrical Contracting Ops Kit, the spreadsheet system included with this course.
You will open the Wire Sizing Calc during the estimating module, log a real LOTO isolation event in the LOTO & Equipment Log during the field compliance module, and track a full job lifecycle from Quote to Invoiced in the Job Tracker.
By the time you finish, the kit is already populated with your real numbers — not sample data.
What you will walk away with: a defensible hourly rate built from your actual cost structure.
A repeatable quoting process that accounts for NEC continuous-load rules, derating, and permit fees.
A client onboarding script that closes commercial accounts without discounting.
A LOTO compliance habit that protects your license and your crew.
A monthly P&L routine using the Income & Expenses tab.
And a concrete plan for layering in service contracts to create recurring revenue.
This is a buy-once, keep-forever course.
No upsells inside, no fluff sections padded to hit a runtime.
If you work commercial electrical — or want to — this is the operating system you need.
What you'll learn
You'll be able to calculate a defensible hourly rate that covers overhead and delivers profit
You'll be able to size conductors and breakers to NEC 310.16 using the Wire Sizing Calc tab
You'll be able to produce accurate job estimates that include labor, materials, permits, and derating
You'll be able to log LOTO isolations and track equipment calibration to stay audit-ready
You'll be able to manage full job lifecycles from quote to invoiced using the Job Tracker tab
You'll be able to read your monthly P&L from the Income & Expenses tab and identify margin leaks
You'll be able to win commercial accounts using a repeatable proposal and onboarding process
You'll be able to build a service contract offering that generates predictable recurring revenue
Course curriculum
Section 1: Welcome & Setup
How This Course and Kit Work Together
Licensing, Insurance, and Entity Setup for Commercial Work
Commercial vs. Residential: What Actually Changes Operationally
The NEC Rules That Matter Most for Commercial Bidding
Building the Daily Kit Habit: 10 Minutes That Run Your Business
Section 2: Estimating, Pricing & Your Hourly Rate
Building a Defensible Hourly Rate from Real Cost Data
The Commercial Job Estimate: Scope, Labor, Materials, Permits
Using the Wire Sizing Calc to Price NEC-Compliant Bids
Markup vs. Margin: How to Price Materials for Actual Profit
Writing a Commercial Proposal That Wins Without Discounting