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Profit Margin Calculator

Know your margins on every job. See gross profit, margin percentage, and markup at a glance.

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Get your financial analysis, margin breakdown, and pricing benchmarks sent to your inbox. Know your numbers before you commit.

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  • Margin + markup breakdown
  • Break-even calculation

How to Calculate Profit Margin for Construction Jobs

Profit margin and markup are not the same number, and confusing them is how contractors think they're making 20% when they're actually making 16.7%. The mistake is structural: margin is profit divided by revenue, while markup is profit divided by cost. Apply a 25% markup and you get a 20% margin - but if you think that 25% is your margin, you've just miscalculated every bid. Over a full year of projects, that 4-point gap compounds into a cash shortfall that looks like a revenue problem when it's actually a math problem.

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