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Overhead per job calculator
Rent, insurance, software, and the truck payment do not show up on the materials list. They still have to come out of the jobs you book.
Bare overhead per job = monthly fixed costs ÷ jobs that month. The cushion is a percent on top of that bare share, added to today’s average ticket as a sanity check.
Numbers stay in this browser. This is shop math, not tax, legal, or lending advice.
Start from a trade
Rent, insurance, phones, software, the truck payment, marketing. Not materials.
Bare overhead per job
$80
- Add this to every price: $88
Overhead is 40% or more of the ticket
More shop math
- Supply markupMarkup on the invoice cost is not the same as margin, and waste never makes it onto the customer’s receipt unless you put it there.
- Job cost vs priceA price can look fine on the estimate and still pay less than the burdened hour. This puts the current quote next to cost and next to the margin you said you wanted.
- Deposit riskThe deposit you keep is not the risk. The risk is the uncovered balance times the chance they never show.