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Google Ads Budget
Calculator

Enter your monthly ad spend to estimate clicks, leads, and cost-per-lead for your industry. Then see exactly how much you save managing it with a dedicated PPC specialist instead of an agency.

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/month
$500$50,000

Auto-filled for SaaS / Software. Edit if you know your actual CPC.

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Percentage of clicks that become leads. Industry default: 3%.

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Live Preview

1,316

Clicks/mo

39

Leads/mo

$128.21

Cost/Lead

Process

How It Works

From budget to a hiring decision in under 60 seconds.

1

Set Your Budget

Enter your monthly Google Ads spend and select your industry. CPC and conversion rates auto-fill.

2

Adjust Parameters

Fine-tune the average CPC and conversion rate if you know your actual numbers from Google Ads.

3

See Your Projections

Get estimated monthly clicks, leads, and cost-per-lead based on your inputs.

4

Compare Management Costs

See a side-by-side comparison of agency, freelancer, and Zedtreeo specialist costs with annual savings.

Use Cases

Who This Is For

Business owners and marketing leaders optimizing their ad spend.

Founders Running Their Own Ads

You set up Google Ads yourself but suspect you are overspending on clicks that do not convert. This calculator shows what a specialist could achieve with the same budget — and what it costs to hire one.

Businesses Outgrowing Their Agency

Your agency takes 15-20% of every dollar you spend. As budgets scale, that fee becomes significant. See the exact savings of switching to a dedicated specialist at a flat hourly rate.

Marketing Teams Planning Budgets

Need to present PPC projections and management costs to leadership? Generate quick estimates for different budget scenarios and show the ROI of dedicated specialist management.

FAQs

FAQs

Common questions about the Google Ads Budget Calculator.

The industry-average CPC values are based on publicly available Google Ads benchmarks from WordStream, Databox, and other PPC research sources (2024-2025 data). They represent search network averages and may vary by geography, competition, and keyword specificity. For the most accurate estimate, enter your actual CPC from your Google Ads dashboard.

Conversion rate is the percentage of people who click your ad and then take a desired action on your landing page — filling out a form, scheduling a call, requesting a demo, or making a purchase. The industry defaults range from 2.4% to 3.8%, but well-optimized campaigns can achieve 5-10% or higher.

Agencies charge a percentage of your ad spend (typically 15-20%) because their business model scales with your budget — the more you spend, the more they earn, even if the work stays the same. A Zedtreeo PPC specialist costs a flat $8/hour ($1,408/month full-time) regardless of your budget. At $10,000/month ad spend, an agency charges $1,500+ in management fees alone; at $25,000 it becomes $3,750. Your Zedtreeo specialist costs the same either way.

These are directional estimates based on industry averages. Actual performance depends on keyword selection, ad quality, landing page experience, geographic targeting, competition, and dozens of other factors. Use this calculator for budgeting and comparison purposes. A dedicated PPC specialist can audit your account and provide campaign-specific projections.

A dedicated PPC specialist handles keyword research, bid management, ad copy writing and A/B testing, negative keyword management, conversion tracking setup, landing page recommendations, competitor monitoring, budget pacing, and weekly performance reporting. They work exclusively on your campaigns — unlike agencies that split attention across dozens of clients.

Methodology

How the Google Ads Budget Calculator works

How the number is produced

  1. Clicks = budget ÷ industry CPC (editable default per industry); leads = clicks × conversion rate; cost per lead = budget ÷ leads.
  2. Management comparison: agency fee as a % of spend versus a dedicated remote PPC specialist at the Rate Index rate × 176.
  3. Break-even shows the spend level at which a dedicated specialist is cheaper than a percentage fee.

Assumptions built in

  • CPC and conversion defaults are industry averages — enter your own account numbers for accuracy.
  • Agency percentage is your input; typical ranges are shown as guidance.

Benchmarks & sources

  • WordStream / LocaliQ Google Ads industry benchmarks (2024)Used for: the per-industry average CPC and conversion-rate defaults (editable) — e.g. legal $6.75 CPC, e-commerce $1.16.
  • Zedtreeo Rate Index (2026)Used for: the offshore hourly rate per role used on the Zedtreeo side of every comparison — the same figures quoted on our service pages.
  • Zedtreeo pricing engine (site-wide constants) (2026)Used for: 176 billable hours per full-time month; local-market multipliers of ~3.5× (US), ~3.0× (Europe avg.), ~3.2× (Australia), ~2.8× (Canada) applied to the offshore rate when you pick a comparison market.

Methodology and constants last reviewed against the Zedtreeo pricing engine and Rate Index. Estimates are for planning; your quote depends on role, scope and engagement.

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