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Are you charging enough to actually make money?

Calculate what your crew really costs, account for the hours you're paying for but can't bill, recover your company overhead, and find the hourly and daily revenue your business needs.

1 Company Overhead

Enter your average monthly expenses that must be paid whether you have one job going or ten.

Monthly Overhead: $0
Annual Overhead: $0

2 Build Your Crew

Enter every employee normally working on this crew and their actual hourly wage.

Employee
Hourly Wage

3 Labor Burden

Payroll taxes, workers compensation, benefits, paid time off and other employee expenses make your true payroll cost higher than the wage printed on a paycheck.

4 Crew Efficiency

You pay your crew for the entire workday, but not every paid hour creates billable jobsite production.

Current Crew Efficiency: 75%
Important: If your employees are paid for 8 hours but only produce 6 hours of jobsite work, those other 2 hours still cost your company money. The productive hours have to recover the cost of the entire paid day.

5 Profit Goal

Choose the operating profit margin you want left after your calculated labor and overhead costs are recovered.

Your Contractor True Rate

This is what your crew needs to produce based on the numbers you entered.

Required Productive Hourly Rate
$0
For each hour your crew is actually producing jobsite work.
Required Crew-Day Revenue
$0
Per paid crew day

Where Your Crew-Day Rate Comes From

You Pay For 0

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You Produce 0

Raw Crew Wages for Full Paid Day $0
Payroll Burden $0
Total Burdened Crew Payroll $0
Daily Company Overhead Recovery $0
TRUE DAILY BREAK-EVEN $0
Revenue Above Break-Even at Target Margin $0
REQUIRED CREW-DAY REVENUE $0
Crew Size 0
Crew Efficiency 0%
Combined Wages $0/hr
Burdened Payroll $0/hr
True Productive Labor $0/hr
Overhead / Productive Hour $0/hr
Break-Even / Productive Hour $0/hr
Annual Revenue Target $0

What Happens If Your Crew Becomes More Efficient?

Move the slider. Your employees still cost the same for the paid day, but changing productivity changes how many jobsite hours are available to recover those costs.

85% Efficiency

Productive Time 0
Rate Needed $0
Full Day Revenue Needed $0
Paid Time Not Producing 0

Quick Job Price Calculator

Now put your actual company numbers to work on a project.


Calculated Job Price
$0