Boston, MA
EV CHARGER INSTALL ESTIMATING.

## EV Charger Estimating in Boston Takes More Than a Flat-Rate Sheet Boston is one of the densest EV markets in New England. The MBTA's Green New Deal commitments, the city's municipal EV fleet expansion, and Massachusetts' MOR-EV rebate program have pushed residential and commercial EV charger installs into every neighborhood from Dorchester to the South End. That volume is good for your business. It also means you're quoting more jobs, faster, with more variables than a flat-rate sheet can handle. Every job here starts with the same questions: What's the panel capacity at this triple-decker? Is there conduit run to the garage or does the wire go through a finished basement? Does the building have a condo association that controls the electrical room? Those answers change your material and labor numbers job by job. Estimate.Pro gives you a structured walkthrough that surfaces those variables before you ever open a proposal document. ## What the App Does on a Boston EV Job You walk through the jobsite — or work from photos if it's a remote quote — and the AR measurement tool captures panel location, conduit path length, and mounting surface. On supported devices, ONNX-assisted live AR gives you measured distances. On photo-based jobs, measurements are flagged as estimates so you know what to verify before committing. The AI scope-of-work engine then builds a line-item draft against NEC Article 625 (EV supply equipment) and NEC 240 (overcurrent protection). It accounts for the 125% continuous-load rule on the EVSE circuit, GFCI requirements, and whether you need a load calculation to justify adding a 50A circuit to an older service. You can flag jobs that need a full service upgrade and price that separately. Median time from walkthrough to a sendable bid: 8 minutes. ## Boston-Specific Cost Drivers Labor rates in the Boston metro sit above national averages. IBEW Local 103 journeyman scale runs above $75/hr before fringes and benefits — non-union shops pay competitively to retain licensed electricians in a tight market. Your bid needs to reflect that, not a national average pulled from a database built in Ohio. Permit fees in Boston are set by the Inspectional Services Department and scale with the estimated cost of work. A typical Level 2 charger install (50A circuit, 25 feet of conduit, NEMA 14-50 or hardwired EVSE) usually comes in as a low-voltage or residential electrical permit — budget $75–$150 for the permit itself, but factor in inspection scheduling time, which in Boston can run 1–2 weeks out during busy seasons. Multi-unit buildings — three-deckers, condos, apartment complexes — are a major share of Boston's housing stock. These jobs often require load analysis across multiple units, coordination with the building owner, and sometimes a variance for subpanel work in a shared electrical room. Your estimate needs line items for that coordination time, not just wire and breakers. Massachusetts also enforces the 527 CMR electrical code, which adopts NEC with state amendments. Know which amendments apply to EVSE in occupied residential buildings before you quote panel work in a condo. ## Pricing Tiers That Fit a Solo Installer or a Crew Estimate.Pro runs free forever with no credit card required. If you're doing enough EV jobs to warrant faster workflows and invoice exports, Pro is $39/seat/month. Elite at $79/seat/month adds Stripe Connect with 0% platform fee — useful if you're collecting deposits on commercial charger installs. If you run a crew doing multiple installs per day, the Crew plan is $399/month flat for the whole team. The saved material cost workspace lets you store your Boston-specific supplier pricing — conduit, breakers, EVSE units — so every estimate pulls your actual costs, not generic national data. ## Who This Is For You're a licensed Massachusetts electrician or electrical contractor quoting EV charger jobs in Boston and the surrounding metro. You're tired of building proposals in a spreadsheet that doesn't know the difference between a 100A service and a 200A service, or between a garage with existing conduit and a finished basement that needs a chase. You want a tool that asks the right questions and builds the number fast. Estimate.Pro is that tool. Start free, no credit card, and run your next Boston EV job through it.