AFTER THE JOB
Did that job make money?
Check what a finished job really made after labor, drive time, materials, subs and card fees. See margin, what each crew hour earned, and how actual cost compared with your estimate.
01Your numbers
The starting numbers are an illustrative example, not industry benchmarks. Replace them with your own.
HOW IT WORKS
Job profit calculator
Job profit is the invoice before sales tax minus every cost the job caused: labor at its loaded cost, the paid drive time nobody billed for, materials, subcontractors, permits and disposal, and the fee to take the payment. Compare that with what you estimated and you find out which kind of job quietly loses money.
- 01Enter the invoice total before sales tax.
- 02Add the labor hours on site and the drive hours you paid for, at your loaded labor cost.
- 03Add materials, subcontractors, permits, disposal and rentals, plus your card or payment fee.
- 04Enter the all-in cost you estimated, including the payment fee, to see how far off the estimate was.
A WORKED EXAMPLE
A job profit example
An illustrative $2,400 job takes 10 hours on site and 1.5 hours of driving at a $42 loaded cost, uses $780 of materials and $60 of disposal, and is paid by card at 2.9%. Costs come to $1,323 and the fee to $69.60, so the job made $1,007.40, a 42.0% margin. Each of the 11.5 crew hours produced $129.60 before paying that crew. All-in, including the fee, the job cost $92.60 more than the $1,300 estimate.
Questions, answered.
What should count as a job cost?
Anything the job caused that you would not have spent otherwise: the crew's hours at their loaded cost, paid drive time, materials and parts, subcontractors, permits, dump fees, equipment rental and the payment fee. Rent, office staff and insurance are overhead; the break-even calculator covers those.
What is a loaded labor cost?
The hourly wage plus what it costs you to employ that person: payroll taxes, workers' compensation, benefits and paid time off. The labor rate calculator works it out from your own numbers.
Why count drive time?
You pay the crew while they drive, and most customers are not billed for it. A job across town can look profitable on the invoice and still lose money once the round trip is counted.
What does “earned per crew hour” mean?
It is what each hour of crew time produced after materials, subs, other costs and the payment fee, before paying the crew. Compare it with your loaded labor cost and your billable rate to see whether the job paid its way.
Is my job data saved or sent anywhere?
No. The numbers stay in your browser. You can copy a summary or share a link that carries only the numbers in the address; nothing is submitted to CrewBrix.
WHEN THE JOB MOVES FORWARD
Keep your customers, work, and follow-up together.
Explore how CrewBrix connects the next steps. Your free-tool draft stays in your browser; it is not automatically imported into an account.