Five calculators. One honest quote.
Start anywhere, but follow the chain when you can: direct cost becomes a labor rate, labor and overhead become a break-even, and every finished job teaches the next estimate.
Markup ↔ Margin
Convert cost, markup, target gross margin, or selling price without mixing denominators.
Fully Burdened Labor
Turn wages, burden, benefits, excluded time, and utilization into a real billable-hour cost.
Overhead Recovery
Spread indirect business cost across billable capacity, jobs, or an annual revenue target.
Change-order Price
Price extra scope from direct labor, materials, waste, mobilization, disruption, and margin.
Bid vs. Actual
Compare what the job was supposed to earn with what it actually earned, category by category.
A target margin cannot rescue an incomplete cost.
If nonbillable labor or overhead is missing from the cost basis, a markup calculation can be perfectly correct and still produce the wrong business decision.
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