Status
Optional. We'll tell you if it's a donation.
Least you should charge to keep 30% on this job: $1,042.07. The pad total is what you type into invoicing. This number is the job floor.
Custom rates for this job
$75.00 you charge·$52.00 true cost·$32.00 paycheck
Paycheck wage
$32.00
Hits the bank. Not the cost.
True hourly cost
$52.00
What this hour actually costs you.
You charge
$75.00
What the client pays per man-h.
True hourly cost is paycheck wage plus EI, CPP, WCB, vacation, benefits, and the truck. The floor uses that number, not the wage on the stub. On this job that gap is $240.00 — paycheck labor $384.00, true labor $624.00.
What is true hourly cost?
People say “loaded wage” and mean this. If you only price the paycheck, you donate payroll tax, time off, benefits, and the van. Company burden on a $32.00/h wage:
- Paycheck wage
- $32.00
- CPP / EI / WSIB (14.1%)
- $4.52
- Vacation / stat (6%)
- $1.92
- Benefits (8%)
- $2.56
- Truck / overhead per hour
- $8.00
- Built true cost
- $49.00
This job is using $52.00/h, not the builder’s $49.00/h. Fix it on Rates if that is wrong.
What you bill the client.
Paycheck plus payroll, time off, benefits, truck.
What hits the bank. Not the cost.
Regular labor at true cost
$624.00
Paycheck would say $384.00. Gap $240.00.
No overtime. Add a block if anyone stays late — 1.5× is the company default.
Company fuel
$0.29 /km
Van · $1.65/L · 12.5 L/100km = $0.21 fuel + $0.08 wear
Office to site. One way.
Round trip
Counted both ways
68 km
$19.45
Fuel line
Fuel line: $19.45.
Off. If anyone sleeps there, turn it on.
Off. Crews eat. You pay or they resent you.
Cost $86.00 → sell $98.90. Book markup is 25%. This line is light.
Fuel
Round trip. You have to come home.
Counted in travel. Do not double it here.
Hotel
If anyone sleeps there, it is a line.
Food / per-diem
Crew eat. You pay or they keep the receipt forever.
Parking
Downtown jobs eat cash like it is nothing.
Permits
If you need one and did not price it, that is a donation.
Dump fees
Debris leaves in a truck. Dump fees belong on the sheet.
Small tools
Bits, blades, bags, consumables. They add up while you are not looking.
Wear
Equipment does not last forever. Charge like you know that.
Weather delay
Price one rain day. Just one. Or eat it later.
Second trip
Did you price the second trip?
PM time
Someone has to run this job. That someone is not free.
Warranty
Callbacks are a cost. Pretending they are a personality trait does not help.
Tax
If you owe it, it is in the number. Not after.
Insurance bump
One claim and you will wish this line existed.
5% small and known. 10% usual. 20% when you're guessing.
I'd add 20%. You're guessing. 20% pad, or go price the blank checklist lines.
Labor at $75.00/h Charge rate × hours. The spread vs true hourly cost is profit on the job. | $900.00 |
Materials / equipment At the markup you picked. That markup is also profit on the job. | $98.90 |
Travel Fuel, hotel, per-diem — actual cost. | $19.45 |
Subtotal | $1,018.35 |
Known extras not on those lines None priced. Blank checklist lines are uncertainty — that's why the pad exists. | $0.00 |
10% pad | $101.83 |
Pad left after extras Leftover pad is leftover buffer. It is not the profit you planned. | $101.83 |
Profit on this job
$390.73
Labor spread $276.00 + material markup $12.90 + leftover pad $101.83. The pad is a buffer. This number is the job.
At 20% the work + pad is $1,222.02. Tap that chip if you agree.
How Floor works — pad vs profit vs the job floor.
Collect
$1,252.57
3 lines · 10% pad