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Job Profit Margin Calculator
Describe a job's numbers — what you charged, hours, wages, materials — and get the honest answer: true cost with labor burden and overhead, real margin, and what you should have charged.
How it works
Describe the job: what you charged, hours and wages, materials, how they paid.
The AI computes true cost — labor burden, overhead share, card fees — math shown.
Get the verdict, the paper-vs-reality gap, and the price that hits your target.
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One run here. Every job, inside Fieldproxy.
Here, you typed one job's numbers from memory. Inside Fieldproxy, every job costs itself — with the real hours and real materials.
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Techs clock in/out on the job — labor cost accrues with real hours, burdened automatically.
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Materials pull from inventory at actual cost the moment they're logged against the job.
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Overhead allocates per job by your rule — no more guessing what a truck-day costs.
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Every closed job shows its true margin on the dashboard; the losers stand out the same day.
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Quarterly pricing decisions become data: 'attic jobs run 22% under target — raise the rate.'
Frequently asked questions
What if I don't know my overhead?
Give it what you have ('about $15k/month across 4 trucks') and it allocates per job. Missing numbers get industry-standard defaults — every default is flagged so you can rerun with real figures.
What's labor burden?
Wages are not what an hour costs you — payroll taxes, workers comp, benefits, and PTO add roughly 30%. The calculator prices labor fully burdened, which is where most 'profitable' jobs quietly stop being profitable.
Is this the same AI as in Fieldproxy?
Same capability. Inside Fieldproxy, job costing runs on every job automatically — real hours from time tracking, real materials from inventory — so margin isn't a once-a-quarter surprise.