Work · Small service jobs
What did the job
really leave you?
Use one job to understand the difference between a customer price, pay for your time, and the amount left after costs. Start with a completed job or a quote you are considering.
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Job profit review
Give your time a place in the calculation.
A service price can look healthy until you count the extra hour, travel, supplies, and overhead. Review those costs together and compare what happens when your assumptions change.
Review a job’s profitBring these numbers
- The customer price, before sales tax
- Owner and crew time, with the pay allowed for each
- Supplies, travel, payment fees, and the overhead assigned to this job
Use your own records. If a cost is uncertain, make it a visible assumption and test more than one value.
An invented example · Not a market rate
One extra hour changes the answer.
- Customer price
- $160
- Owner pay: 3 hours × $30
- −$90
- Supplies and travel
- −$30
- Allocated overhead
- −$15
- Remainder after these costs
- $25
If the job takes four hours at the same $30 allowance, the remainder is −$5. A $190 price leaves $25 under those new assumptions. That arithmetic does not establish a fair local price, a customer’s willingness to pay, or final business net income.
Use the result
A review, then a decision.
Reconstruct one job.
Use actual hours and costs when you have them. Include time spent setting up, traveling, or cleaning up if you pay for that time.
Find the assumption that matters.
Compare a longer job or revised price. Keep owner pay separate from the amount left over, and include each cost only once.
Take the question back to your records.
A low remainder may prompt a closer look at scope, time estimates, or price. Check more than one job before treating a single result as a pattern.
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