--- title: "Solar Lead Cost Calculator: Cost per Signed Job — Gigabit" url: https://gigabit.agency/solar/tools/cost-per-signed-job-calculator/ description: "Free calculator for solar installers: compare what a signed job costs from marketplace leads and from your own, and see how many jobs make your own leads pay." lang: en --- Solar (https://gigabit.agency/solar/) / Cost-per-signed-job calculator Free calculator # What does a signed solar job really cost you? Lead counts don't pay the crew. Put in your marketplace leads and your own, and compare what each signed job really costs. ### Marketplace leads ### Your own leads Marketplace, per signed job A$600 Your own, per signed job A$556 Your own leads cost A$44 less per signed job here. Marketplace spend a month **A$3,600** Signed jobs from marketplaces **6** Own-lead spend a month **A$5,000** Signed jobs from your own leads **9** Own-lead jobs needed to match the marketplace cost **8.3 a month** The starting values are an example, not a benchmark. A$60 is SolarQuotes’ published residential price (https://support.solarquotes.com.au/hc/en-us/articles/115000931934-How-does-SolarQuotes-make-money-Will-I-pay-more-for-my-system-by-using-SolarQuotes), excluding GST. The rest are made up to show how the sums work, so use your own invoices and CRM. The method ## Simple sums, with nothing hidden. 1 #### Monthly spend Marketplace: leads × price. Your own: ad spend + management fee. 2 #### Signed jobs Leads × the share that sign. 3 #### Cost per signed job Monthly spend ÷ signed jobs. 4 #### Jobs to match Your own monthly spend ÷ the marketplace cost per job. ## What to do with the number - Run it for each lead source, because one marketplace is often far worse than another. - Run solar, battery and commercial leads separately, because they differ in price and job value. - If shared leads close poorly, check how fast you answer (https://gigabit.agency/solar/ai-workflow-automation/) before you buy fewer. - Read shared or exclusive solar leads (https://gigabit.agency/solar/guides/solar-leads-shared-vs-exclusive/) for what each kind is good for. FAQ ## Lead cost questions #### How do I work out cost per signed job? Divide what you spent on leads in a month by the number of those leads that signed. If you bought 60 leads at A$60 (A$3,600) and signed 6 jobs, each job cost A$600 in lead fees, before any sales time. #### What do Australian solar leads cost? SolarQuotes publishes A$60 for residential solar, A$55 for a home battery and A$185 for commercial, plus GST. Solar Calculator publishes A$40 and A$36. Solar Proof publishes A$35 shared and A$120 exclusive. Check your own invoices, because credits change the real figure. #### What is a good close rate on solar leads? We don't know of a reliable benchmark. The only figure we found is one lead seller's claim of 8-15% on shared leads, and a seller has a reason to say that. Track your own for a month: leads received against jobs signed. #### Are my own leads always cheaper? No. A monthly fee is fixed, so at low volume it can cost more per job than buying leads. That is what the jobs-to-match figure shows. Own leads pay when you sign enough jobs to spread the fee, and search keeps working after you stop paying for it. Gigabit for Solar ## Want this measured for you every month? Our growth package is reported as cost per signed job. Start with a free audit of your website, search visibility and response time. Get my free growth audit: https://gigabit.agency/solar/free-audit/ See the growth package: https://gigabit.agency/solar/growth-package/ ## Structured data ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://gigabit.agency/#org", "name": "Gigabit", "alternateName": "Gigabit Agency", "legalName": "Gigaverse Global LLC", "url": "https://gigabit.agency/", "logo": "https://gigabit.agency/assets/logos/gigabit-mark.png", "description": "Gigabit is an AI-native software factory — forward-deployed senior engineers and AI agents that build, ship, and operate the production systems your business runs on, from brand to backend. Productized, fixed-price, and accountable for the outcome. 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