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Contractor markup calculator
Turn your costs, overhead and profit goal into a bid price. Nothing you type is saved.
Your job
Insurance, truck, tools, office, software, your own pay as owner. Add up a year of it and divide by a year of direct costs.
Your bid
$0
Bid price
Direct costs
Overhead
Break-even (costs + overhead)
Profit
Equivalent markup on cost
Equivalent margin on price
Markup and margin are not the same thing
Markup is what you add on top of cost. Margin is the share of the selling price that is profit. A 25% markup is only a 20% margin. If you want to keep 20% of every dollar you bill, a 20% markup will leave you short.
The bid price here is cost plus overhead plus profit. It does not include taxes, permits, financing or contingency. Check it against your market before you send it.
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