Add up materials and labor, cover your overhead, add the profit you want to keep, and get the number to put on the estimate. This does the whole build-up for you.
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Most underpriced bids forget the two things that are not on the receipt: overhead and profit. Materials and hours are the easy part. Overhead (your truck, insurance, phone, fuel, the unpaid time you spend quoting and chasing payment) has to ride on every job before you have made a dime. Then profit is a number you add on purpose, not whatever happens to be left over.
This calculator stacks it the right way: materials plus labor, then overhead on top, then your margin. That is the number that keeps the lights on and still pays you.
Dig deeper in how to bid a job and still make money, or try the markup & margin calculator.
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