How much does a plumbing business coach cost per month?

Coaching sold by the month runs $99 to $2,999 at the prices providers print on their own sites, checked October 27, 2026: $99 for Wealthy Plumber’s online group, $124.95 for Service Nation’s Roundtable membership, and $999 to $2,999 for Breakthrough Academy by revenue tier. Eighty-Seven Degrees sells coaching by the week, from $750, which is $3,000 for four weeks, and Profitability Partners, a fractional CFO rather than a coach, puts most engagements at $4,000 to $7,000 a month.

How much does Nexstar Network cost a plumbing company?

Nexstar does not print a price on its own site, checked October 27, 2026; its page says members don’t have to sign a contract. Any dollar figure for Nexstar found elsewhere is secondhand, so ask Nexstar for the first year’s total and the cost of leaving, in writing.

Is sales training for plumbers cheaper than a business coach?

Cheaper than a full coaching program, yes: Strictly Plumbers prints $3,997 for four weeks of live sales training on Zoom, while a first year at Breakthrough Academy, Blueprint included, comes to $17,688 or more. Not cheaper than every option, though: a year in Wealthy Plumber’s $99-a-month group totals $1,188. The class buys a narrower thing — what techs say in the home — and does nothing about calls that go unanswered, estimates nobody follows up or invoices held in a property manager’s portal.

Is a business coach worth it for a one-truck plumbing company?

Not at five figures a year. When the owner still answers every call and prices every job, there is no hand-off yet for a coach to fix; a $99-a-month group, or a SCORE mentor, which the SBA says costs nothing, matches that stage. The Revenue Review targets plumbing companies past $1 million in yearly revenue, and a smaller shop that books the free 20-minute call will hear that on the call.

Can a plumbing company use the Revenue Review alongside a coach?

Yes. The Review reads the shop’s own records under read-only access for one fixed fee and hands over a written report; it does no coaching, so the report can sit on the table at the next session with a coach the shop already pays. If the company later wants anything built, that work gets its own written scope and price, agreed before it begins.

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How Much Does a Plumbing Business Coach Cost? Printed Prices and First-Year Totals

A plumbing business coach costs $99 to $2,999 a month where the provider prints a monthly price on its own site, checked October 27, 2026: $99 for Wealthy Plumber’s online group for plumbers, and $999 to $2,999 for Breakthrough Academy’s contractor coaching by revenue tier, after a $5,700 six-week first phase. Coaching sold by the week starts at $750 a week, one-time courses and sales classes for plumbers run $1,000 to $3,997, a fractional CFO with a plumbing page quotes $4,000 to $7,000 a month, and Nexstar and CertainPath publish no figure. Our Revenue Review sits outside that monthly market: one fixed $4,500, two weeks, to count where money stalls in the shop’s own records, with no coaching and no monthly fee. What follows: every figure tied to its source, a year of each totaled, which plumbing problem each kind of help is built for, red flags peculiar to plumbing coaching, and when to hire nobody.

By Tamara Stepanyan, founder of Lumina Business Advisory · Updated October 27, 2026 · Sources checked October 27, 2026 · Editorial standards

What plumbing coaching costs, provider by provider

We took each plumbing-coaching price below off the seller’s own website on October 27, 2026. No figure here was lifted from a ranking or review site, and a name on this list is not an endorsement. Sellers reprice, so for a plumbing company the binding figure is whatever the signed agreement says.

Wealthy Plumber, an online group for plumbers run by Jered Williams: $99 a month on its Skool page. Its website lists two to three live calls a week on pricing, price books, P&Ls and KPIs, recorded for members, plus a community section where members trade questions and a downloads section of scorecards, calculators and SOPs.
Service Nation, a membership for HVAC, plumbing and electrical contractors: the Roundtable tier is $124.95 a month, with a lower effective rate on the annual plan. One-on-one and team coaching is listed as an add-on on every tier with no price shown, and the Advanced and Alliance tiers say “Custom.”
Strictly Plumbers, which sells recorded training and live classes to plumbing companies: $1,000 for a 27-module online course that includes one one-on-one coaching session (or two payments of $550, or four of $300), and $3,997 for four weeks of live sales training on Zoom, four hours in total.
Breakthrough Academy, contractor coaching that names plumbing among its trades: a six-week Blueprint at $5,700, then a monthly Implementation Track priced by company size: Essential at $999 (revenue floor $500,000 a year), Accelerator at $1,999 ($1 million floor) and Pro at $2,999 ($3 million floor). Its Member Agreement recommends a 12-month minimum, and the same page says a member can leave on a month’s notice if the program isn’t a fit.
Eighty-Seven Degrees (87helps), coaching for plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing businesses: a coaching package from $750 a week, built on an initial interview, a custom roadmap and an on-site visit; single projects such as a budget format or a KPI report from $250; ServiceTitan implementation and troubleshooting from $250.
Elite Trades, coaching for plumbing, HVAC and electrical companies: no dollar price, but its own cost page states that its fees typically amount to 1–2% of the business’s revenue and reset each year.
Profitability Partners, a fractional CFO service: the FAQ on its plumbing page puts most engagements at $4,000 to $7,000 a month, the spread depending, by its own account, on how complex the business is, whether it has more than one location and whether bookkeeping is part of the job. The same FAQ says it typically works with plumbing companies at $5 million to $30 million or more in revenue.
Nexstar Network and CertainPath, membership programs for the residential trades: neither home page prints a price. Nexstar’s says members don’t have to sign a contract. Ask either one for the first year’s total, in writing, before setting it beside the figures above.

Twelve months at the printed price

A monthly figure is the wrong unit for a shop that plans its trucks, hires and slow season by the year. Here is the arithmetic on the printed prices, not a quote from anyone:

Wealthy Plumber: 12 × $99 = $1,188.
Service Nation Roundtable, billed monthly: 12 × $124.95 = $1,499.40, before any coaching add-on.
Strictly Plumbers, course plus sales class: $1,000 + $3,997 = $4,997, paid once.
Eighty-Seven Degrees at the starting weekly price: $9,750 for 13 weeks, $39,000 for 52.
Breakthrough Academy, Blueprint plus a first year on the track: $17,688 on Essential, $29,688 on Accelerator, $41,688 on Pro.
Elite Trades, for a hypothetical company at $2 million a year: 1–2% comes to $20,000 to $40,000 for the year.
Profitability Partners: $48,000 to $84,000 for twelve months at its stated range.

None of those lines counts the owner’s own hours; Breakthrough Academy’s FAQ, for one, recommends at least five hours a week of implementation time. Ask each provider how much time a month the program expects from the owner and the office — live calls, homework, rolling a new routine out to techs and CSRs — because those hours come out of dispatch, estimates and the phones.

From the phone to the paid invoice: which help fits where

Aim matters more than price. In a plumbing company the money moves through a short chain — the call is booked or lost, the tech writes options at the kitchen table, the big estimate is followed up or not, the ticket becomes an invoice, the invoice gets paid — and each kind of help on the list above is built for a different link in it.

What techs say in the home. A tech who offers one fix and leaves, or a camera finding that never becomes a written sewer option, is a sales-training job, and that is what the per-class prices buy.
The follow-up nobody owns. Sewer, repipe and water-heater estimates that never got a second call need one named owner and a weekly routine; a coach can hold the owner to it, and a count of open estimates shows what the pile is worth.
The owner as the bottleneck. If every pricing exception, dispatch change and collections call still runs through one person, that is the core of what coaching programs and peer groups sell, and it is ongoing work that a monthly fee fits.
Cash and margin. Not knowing which job types — drain, sewer, repipe, water heater, new-construction rough-in — keep money, or carrying payroll on a credit line while retainage sits unpaid, is finance work: a fractional CFO, and a CPA for anything that touches tax.
Tickets and invoices. Tickets that come back from the truck days late, and property-manager invoices rejected over a missing PO number or a not-to-exceed amount, are leaks in the shop’s own records, the kind a fixed count of those records is built to price.

Where the Revenue Review fits next to a plumbing coach

The Revenue Review costs a fixed $4,500 and runs two weeks. Working from read-only access, it reads twelve months of the plumbing company’s own records — field-service tickets, the call log, invoices and the books — and the company keeps the written report at the end, which puts a dollar-a-month figure on each stall the records can back up. It coaches no one and trains no techs, so a shop already paying a coach can pass that report to the coach as it stands. Scope, how payment is split and every document the company keeps are set out on the Review’s own page.

Warning signs specific to plumbing coaching

Questions that apply to hiring any adviser — scope, exit terms, data access, confidentiality — have their own guide, “Choosing an Operations Consultant,” in the links below. The signs here belong to plumbing:

A pricebook increase prescribed before anyone has read the shop’s callbacks, no-charge re-clears, warranty jobs and current supply-house costs by task. A flat-rate price is only as sound as the cost under it.
Sales training that teaches the pitch but not the paper trail. Before a sewer replacement or a repipe is offered, ask how the coach wants the camera footage, photos and written options kept on the ticket, so the homeowner, the office and the next tech can see why it was proposed.
A tech pay plan rewritten on a coach’s advice. Commission and spiff plans touch wage-and-hour rules, so run any change past an employment attorney or the payroll provider before it reaches the techs. Not legal advice.
A fee tied to revenue without saying which revenue. If a tier or a percentage follows revenue, get in writing whether new-construction materials passed through at cost count, and which year’s figure sets the price.
A promised average ticket, close rate or revenue jump. The FTC’s consumer page on coaching scams says no one can guarantee that a business will make money, and that a coach asking for more money to make the business succeed is a reason to stop.
A request for admin logins to ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro or Jobber. Read-only access is enough to look at the numbers, and no coach needs card numbers or homeowners’ personal details.

When the right hire is nobody

A one- or two-truck shop where the owner still answers the phone and writes every estimate has no hand-off yet for anyone to fix. At that stage a low-cost group or a volunteer mentor is the proportionate step: the SBA says SCORE mentors give area-specific advice at no cost, by email, phone and video. The Revenue Review, for its part, is sized for plumbing companies billing $1 million or more a year.

When the whole problem can be said in one sentence, it calls for a named owner and a standing Monday check rather than a program; when cash is short this week, the question is how Friday’s payroll gets covered, and a twelve-month coaching agreement does not answer it. Some of the work also belongs to licensed people: tax questions and the year-end package to a CPA, lien rights on new-construction jobs and collection disputes to a construction attorney.

If the doubt is whether the leak is big enough to spend money on at all, enter four numbers in the Revenue Leak Calculator: it turns them into an approximate dollars-per-month estimate within minutes, and no email address is needed to see it. When that figure comes back small, keeping the money in the plumbing business is a sound answer.

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What should you do next?

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Start with the Review.: If the causes are debatable, the problem crosses departments or systems, or the economics are unclear — diagnose before anyone builds. The Revenue Review: $4,500 fixed, two weeks, computed from your own records. Read a sample finding before you decide — free, no email.

Asked right after

How much does a plumbing business coach cost per month?: Coaching sold by the month runs $99 to $2,999 at the prices providers print on their own sites, checked October 27, 2026: $99 for Wealthy Plumber’s online group, $124.95 for Service Nation’s Roundtable membership, and $999 to $2,999 for Breakthrough Academy by revenue tier. Eighty-Seven Degrees sells coaching by the week, from $750, which is $3,000 for four weeks, and Profitability Partners, a fractional CFO rather than a coach, puts most engagements at $4,000 to $7,000 a month.
How much does Nexstar Network cost a plumbing company?: Nexstar does not print a price on its own site, checked October 27, 2026; its page says members don’t have to sign a contract. Any dollar figure for Nexstar found elsewhere is secondhand, so ask Nexstar for the first year’s total and the cost of leaving, in writing.
Is sales training for plumbers cheaper than a business coach?: Cheaper than a full coaching program, yes: Strictly Plumbers prints $3,997 for four weeks of live sales training on Zoom, while a first year at Breakthrough Academy, Blueprint included, comes to $17,688 or more. Not cheaper than every option, though: a year in Wealthy Plumber’s $99-a-month group totals $1,188. The class buys a narrower thing — what techs say in the home — and does nothing about calls that go unanswered, estimates nobody follows up or invoices held in a property manager’s portal.
Is a business coach worth it for a one-truck plumbing company?: Not at five figures a year. When the owner still answers every call and prices every job, there is no hand-off yet for a coach to fix; a $99-a-month group, or a SCORE mentor, which the SBA says costs nothing, matches that stage. The Revenue Review targets plumbing companies past $1 million in yearly revenue, and a smaller shop that books the free 20-minute call will hear that on the call.
Can a plumbing company use the Revenue Review alongside a coach?: Yes. The Review reads the shop’s own records under read-only access for one fixed fee and hands over a written report; it does no coaching, so the report can sit on the table at the next session with a coach the shop already pays. If the company later wants anything built, that work gets its own written scope and price, agreed before it begins.

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