Busy all week, but did that job actually make you money?
For example: The job felt busy all week, and you cannot tell if it made any money.
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What it costs
You find out at tax time, when it is too late to change the price.
What owners do today
A guess, or a spreadsheet you build once and never update.
Work out what a job made
How it is worked out
- Labor: the hours on the job times what an hour of labor costs you.
- The job's own costs: labor, materials, subcontractors and other costs added up.
- Profit before overhead: the price minus the job's own costs.
- Margin: that profit divided by the price. Markup: that profit divided by the job's own costs.
- Profit after overhead: the profit before overhead minus the overhead share you typed.
- The price for the margin you want: every cost you typed, overhead included, divided by one minus that margin, rounded up to the cent.
Money is shown to the nearest cent. This calculator adds no figure that is not worked out from what you typed, and it never shows another business's margin.
Job costing Pro and up
Log hours and materials on the job as the work happens.
See labor, materials and profit on the job.
Job record: the whole job in one place
Check it yourself
- Every figure on this page is worked out from what you type, and the arithmetic is written out under the calculator.
- See job costing and the plan it comes with.
- Watch the real dashboard and phone app work on a demo company.
Questions owners ask
Where do the numbers I type go?
They stay in your browser; the arithmetic runs on your device. Nothing is sent to us unless you fill in the optional form under the result. That form sends the first name, business email and trade you give it, a short summary of your result, and which page and link brought you here.
What margin should I be at?
This calculator does not say. It shows only what your own numbers work out to and never compares you with another business. Put the margin you want in the last box to see the price that would keep it.
What is the difference between margin and markup?
Margin is the profit as a share of the price. Markup is the profit as a share of the costs. A job that cost $1,000 and sold for $1,500 has a 33.3% margin and a 50% markup.
Should I count overhead?
Leave it out to see what the job made over its own costs. Put in your share of rent, trucks, insurance and office for the job to see what is left after those too.
Can CONSTRUKTR show what each job made?
On Pro and up, job costing shows labor, materials and profit on every job: labor from time entries, materials from expenses and revenue from invoices.
See it on your own jobs.
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