Job profit calculator

How do I work out the net profit on a job?

Take the cost of sales off the price to get gross profit. Then take off the job's share of your overheads: the price times your overhead rate. What is left is the net profit on the job.

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Worked through on one job:

Where a job's money goes
Job price£10,000100%
Cost of sales£6,80068%
Gross profit£3,20032%
Share of overheads£2,10021%
Net profit£1,10011%

The overhead share is the part most firms leave out, and it is the part that decides whether a busy year is a profitable one.

Where the money on a job goes

Enter the job, then your overheads one of two ways. The bar shows how every pound of the price splits.

Cost of sales for this job
Overheads (opex)
Cost of sales
Gross profit
Overheads share
Net profit

Break-even price
Price for your target
Overhead rate used

The full job profit calculator

Where SUBR comes in

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