Job margin calculator

What did that job actually pay?

Put in what you billed and what the job cost. See the five-line ledger, the margin, and what an hour of crew time brought in.

Invoice total ($)

What you billed the client for the job.

Crew hours

Every hour on the clock, all crew added together.

Base wage ($ per hour)

Average hourly wage, before any burden.

Labor burden (%)

Payroll taxes, workers comp, insurance and any overhead you load onto an hour of labor.

Materials ($)

Pavers, plants, base, lumber, everything you bought for the job.

Equipment, dump, other ($)

Rentals, dump fees, fuel, subs, anything else you paid out.

Sample job. Your numbers replace these.

Gross margin

24.6%

Margin is profit as a share of what you billed. Markup, profit as a share of cost, would read 32.6% on these same numbers. They are not the same number.

The job as a five-line ledger
Invoice total	$19,650
Burdened laborhours × wage × (1 + burden)	$5,824
Materials	$9,000
Equipment, dump, other	$0
Gross profit	$4,826

Burdened cost per crew hour: $56.00; Base wage plus the burden.
Revenue per crew hour: $188.94; Invoice total over crew hours.

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How it is figured

Three lines of arithmetic.

Burdened labor is crew hours times base wage times one plus your burden. The burden is everything an hour of labor costs you beyond the wage.
Gross profit is the invoice total minus burdened labor, materials, and equipment, dump and other costs. It is before overhead you do not charge to a job, so it is not what you keep.
Gross margin is gross profit divided by the invoice total. Markup divides by cost instead, which is why a job that made money always shows a bigger markup than margin.

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