For Contractors, Trades & Job Shop Owners

Find Out What an Hour of Labor
Actually Costs You

Most shops quote off the wage on the paycheck. The real number is usually 2.5–3x higher. Enter four numbers and see yours.

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What you get

One Spreadsheet. Three Things You Can Use Today.

✓Your true cost per hour, broken into all 6 layers — wage, burden, overhead, consumables, shift differential and overtime.
✓The exact charge-out floor you need to hit 20% margin, ready to drop into your next quote.
✓A one-page burden summary you can hand to whoever writes your bids.

★★★★★Awarded Top Construction Job Costing & Project Management Software in Canada, 2026

We recovered $50,000 in additional profit in the first month — on a business doing $1.5M a year, that was transformational. Twenty years later the owners don't work in the business day-to-day anymore; they make the big-picture decisions. If it didn't work, we would have stopped. We haven't stopped in twenty years. Abrasive Blast & Paint Inc. — Industrial sandblasting & painting, Nisku, AB — client since 2004

The review found two rate problems at once. On our T&M subcontract work the permitted rate was capped at exactly our true labor cost — zero margin was possible no matter how well the job ran. And on the work we quoted ourselves we were $35 an hour short of covering true labor cost with a 30% margin. We corrected the quoted rate immediately. Heartland Coatings — Industrial coatings contractor

We charged every task out at one flat rate — $110 an hour. The diagnostic showed our true employee cost was over $100 an hour in regular time alone, so any overtime was already losing money. Out of every task we performed, only one was actually profitable. We raised every other task by $20 an hour, on the spot. Ken LaPain & Sons — Contracting & industrial services

These clients showed up, did the work, and followed the system. Your results will depend on your effort and how consistently you implement.

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