See what a job actually makes after labor, materials and overhead, in seconds.
Estimate only, for a quick gut-check. Numbers update as you type.
Most field-service owners price by feel and find out whether a job made money weeks later, if at all. This calculator gives you the quick version: put in the job price, the labor that went into it, your materials, and a rough overhead percentage, and it shows your profit and margin right away.
Treat it as an estimate, not your books. Overhead in particular varies shop to shop, so use a percentage that reflects your real fixed costs. The point is to catch the jobs that look fine on the surface but quietly lose money once labor and overhead are counted.
The catch with doing this by hand is that you only ever check the jobs you are worried about. The shops that consistently make money see this number on every job, automatically, the moment it closes, which is exactly the kind of job costing we build.
Profit is the job price minus your costs: labor (hours times rate), materials, and overhead. Margin is that profit divided by the job price, shown as a percentage. This calculator does that math live as you change the inputs.
Overhead is your fixed costs (insurance, vehicles, office, software, admin pay) spread across your jobs. Many shops land somewhere between 10 and 25 percent, but use a number that reflects your actual costs for a realistic result.
Markup is how much you add on top of cost. Margin is profit as a share of the price you charged. A 50 percent markup is only about a 33 percent margin, which is why pricing on markup alone can be misleading.
Usually labor hours or overhead. Jobs that run long on labor, or shops with high fixed costs spread thin, lose margin fast even when the price looked healthy.
Yes, that is what we build. Instead of checking a calculator now and then, we build job costing into how your shop runs so real margin shows up on every job. A free audit is the place to start.
Book a free audit and we'll map exactly where time and money leak out of your jobs, then show you what we'd build, with a fixed cost up front.
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