Pricing

Every cost. Every markup. Published.

Name: Residential solar installation at real cost plus 15%
Brand: Cost Plus Solar

Below is the active partner's published cost table: equipment, labor, and permits. Your estimate is those costs plus 15%. The installer's identity and licenses appear only on your bid and consent.

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The formula

Real cost, plus 15%. Nothing else.

independent Oregon installation partner shares its real costs and adds 15%. Overhead, profit, and Cost Plus Solar’s qualified-lead fee all come out of that 15%. They are not added on top.

price=real cost×1.15

What counts as cost

EquipmentPanels, inverters, racking, wiring and monitoring, at the price on the supplier invoice.
LaborCrew and electrician hours at a published, loaded hourly rate.
Permits + interconnectionCity permit and utility interconnection fees, passed through at cost.
Job-specific addersThings only your house needs, like a panel upgrade or trenching, at actual cost.

What is not in it

Overhead padding
Sales commissions
Lead fees
Dealer fees
Advertising markups

None of these appear as a line on your receipt, and none are hidden inside another line.

Calculator

Move the slider. Watch every line.

Each line comes from the published cost table below. The 15% is calculated on the subtotal, and nothing else gets added.

System size8.2kW

2.1 kW19 panels × 430 W19.8 kW

Your utility

Changes which incentives come off the bottom.

This runs the same pricing code as a real quote, against the published cost table. Your actual quote adds anything your roof specifically needs, at cost.

Oregon cost table

The numbers behind every quote.

These are the costs independent Oregon installation partner has published for Oregon. They’re also at /oregon/pricing.

Cost table v2Last updated Oct 16, 2026Published by Oregon partner installer

Rows marked Estimated are excluded from final bids until an invoice is verified.

Equipment, pass-through fees and adders

Published equipment, permit, and adder costs. Select a column header to sort.

BOS-W	Estimated BOS, electrical, warranty reserve and project overhead	equipment · bos	$0.60per W	Estimated
MICRO-380VA	Estimated module-level microinverters	equipment · inverter	$174.00each	Estimated
MOD-430W	Estimated 430 W all-black solar modules	equipment · module	$141.90each	Estimated
MONITOR-JOB	Production monitoring and commissioning	equipment · monitoring	$325.00per job	—
RACK-W	Estimated roof attachments, rails and flashing	equipment · racking	$0.18per W	Estimated
DESIGN-JOB	System design and engineering	permit · design	$475.00per job	—
INTERCONNECT-JOB	Utility interconnection administration	permit · interconnection	$225.00per job	—
PERMIT-JOB	Building and electrical permits	permit	$650.00per job	—

Loaded labor rates

Loaded means wages plus payroll taxes, workers’ comp and benefits. Hours scale with system size.

Role	Rate	Hours
Electrical labor	$76per hr	1.2/kW + 4
Licensed installation labor	$58per hr	5.5/kW + 8

Typical permit fees by city

Your receipt uses your city’s actual fee. Each published number links to the city’s fee schedule.

City	Covers	Typical fee
Bend	Building + electrical	Est.
Eugene	Building + electrical	Est.
Medford	Building + electrical	Est.
Portland	Building + electrical	Est.
Salem	Building + electrical	Est.

Version history

v2 is the first published table. When the partner publishes a new version, every changed cost will be listed here, old number next to new.

Compare

How that stacks up.

Public benchmarks for what solar usually costs, and where the money goes.

Cost Plus Solar compared with typical door-to-door and lead-marketplace quotes
Measure	Cost Plus Solar	Typical door-to-door	Lead-marketplace quote
Price per watt, before incentives	$2.56/W8 kW example from the live table (placeholder costs)	$4.70/WUS median, loan-financedLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2024Pending re-verification	$2.43/WOregon average quoteEnergySage Oregon Solar Cost, October 2026Pending re-verification
Cost of finding you, inside your price	No commissions or lead fees. Overhead comes out of the 15%.	Sales commission, not disclosed on the quote.	$800–$1,500 per closed sale, typicalSolarReviews, 2026Pending re-verification
Financing dealer fees	None added.	Often built in. Median loan price is $4.70/W vs $3.50/W cash.Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2024Pending re-verification	Varies by installer.
Itemized real costs	Every line, with invoice references.	No.	No.
Markup disclosed	15%, fixed.	No.	No.

Door-to-door sales are usually financed, so the LBNL loan-financed median is the closest public benchmark. Benchmarks are national unless marked Oregon, and each links to its source. Last reviewed Oct 1, 2026.

Audit us

Don’t take our word for it.

A published markup only matters if the costs underneath it are real. Here’s how you can check.

Contractual audit rights
The lead-purchase agreement gives Cost Plus Solar the right to audit independent Oregon installation partner’s costs. If published costs do not match invoices, the table comes offline.
Invoices on request
Every line on your receipt carries an invoice reference. Ask, and you get the supplier invoice behind it.
Annual third-party review
Once a year an outside reviewer checks published costs against real invoices. The result gets published here.