Job Profit Margin Calculator

By FieldStackPro Research · Updated June 2026

Most owners price jobs on gut feel and find out at tax time what they actually earned. This calculator shows your true margin on a single job — after labor burden, materials, overhead allocation, and card fees — and tells you what you'd need to quote to hit a target margin.

Job inputs

Quoted price ($)

Total labor hours (all workers)

Average hourly wage ($/hr)

Labor burden % (taxes, insurance, benefits)

Materials & parts cost ($)

Monthly overhead ($: rent, trucks, software, insurance)

Jobs per month

Paid by card? (2.9% + $0.30 fee)

Target net margin % (industry healthy range: 15–25%)

How to read the result

Gross margin = price − direct costs (labor incl. burden + materials). Healthy service businesses target 50–65% gross.
Net margin = gross − overhead allocation − processing fees. 15–25% net is a healthy range across most home service trades; under 10% means you're buying yourself a job, not running a business.
Labor burden is the multiplier most owners forget: payroll taxes, workers' comp, liability insurance, and benefits typically add 20–35% on top of wages.

If your margins look thin, the fix is usually pricing discipline plus visibility — knowing margin per job in real time. That's a software problem: see which platforms do job costing well in our 2026 rankings, and estimate the software's own cost with the cost calculator.