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Price the job.
Keep the margin.
List the labour, materials, equipment and subs. BidJolt adds contingency, overhead, markup and tax, then shows the price, the real profit margin, the walk-away price and the deposit, and gives you a clean bid to print or save as PDF.
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Bathroom vanity swap
Worked example
- Direct cost
- $1,750.00
- Contingency 5%
- $87.50
- Overhead 10%
- $183.75
- Markup 20%
- $404.25
- Tax 8% on materials
- $96.00
- Bid price
- $2,521.50
A 20% markup is a 16.67% margin. Below $2,117.25 this job loses money.
Three numbers decide whether a job pays
- 01
Markup is not margin
Add 20% to cost and you keep 16.7% of the price. BidJolt shows both, and works out the markup you need for the margin you want. Read the guide.
- 02
Know your floor
The walk-away price covers every cost, contingency and overhead with zero profit. Discount below it and you are paying to work.
- 03
Quotes, side by side
Received three bids? See the spread, the one far below the rest, the deposit share and which quote leaves out the permit or the clean-up.
Prices
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