Find out what your hour actually costs
A working bid and job-costing workbook. You put in your own overhead, your own hours and your own labor burden, and it returns an hourly recovery rate, a markup-against-margin bid sheet and a break-even line. It is a spreadsheet, not a subscription, and it opens in Excel or Google Sheets.
Also in this kit:
Contractor Estimate Template
The bid sheet workbook (labor burden, overhead, bid sheet, a one-page client estimate, change orders and three worked sample jobs), a blank fillable client estimate PDF, a 10-page fillable change order pack and a 2-page quick start. Opens in Excel or Google Sheets.
Guide: Contractor Estimate Template: Price the Job, Then Send It
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Contractor Change Order Form
A fillable two-page change order form (PDF), the same form as an Excel and Google Sheets file that prices the change and logs every change on the job, a 10-page change order and scope of work pack, and a start-here page.
Guide: Change Order Form: How to Price a Change and Get It Signed
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A sample job, worked through
- The job: a full bathroom remodel. Materials with waste: $4,230. Labor: 82 hours, $3,549.38.
- Add equipment ($420), permits ($285) and the job's share of overhead ($1,199.58). The cost of your own work is $9,683.96.
- With your 22% markup, your own work is priced at $11,814.43. The licensed trades go in as bid, their $2,630 plus 15%: $3,024.50.
- Bid total: $14,838.93, rounded to the nearest fifty dollars: $14,850.
Estimate to the client: $14,850. A 30% deposit is $4,455, leaving $10,395 as the balance.
Download a free one-page sample (PDF)
The client estimate page, filled in with example numbers, with the math traced.
Made with AI assistance. Every formula is visible in the file, so you can check the arithmetic yourself. Screenshots use sample data.
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