Time saved / Know your margin on each job
Job margin for subcontractors: what each job earned and cost
What each job earned, less labour, super, orders and other costs, with a clear breakdown behind the margin. Read from your own claims, hours and orders.
The builder knows its margin on your package. You find out yours at tax time, from a spreadsheet of hours and invoices.
- By hand
- 12 h
- In Excel
- 7 h 30 min
- In YourCA
- 18 min
- Saved
- 11 h 42 min
Estimate for a 6-month electrical job with 10 people on it, each month, on each job. Set your own job.
The risk it heads off
- A job runs at a loss and you find out after it ends.Shows the margin on every job while it runs.
- Unpriced hours or orders make a job look better than it is.Names each shift with no rate and each order with no price.
- One cost line runs over budget and nobody sees it until the job is done.Shows each budget line against what it has cost, in red once it is over.
Step by step
| Step | By hand | Excel | YourCA | What YourCA does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add up the labour cost from the hours worked | 45 min | 30 min | 0 min | Costs every recorded hour at the rate on that day, with super on wages. |
| Add up what you ordered for the job | 30 min | 20 min | 0 min | Adds the price of every item ordered in Procurement. |
| Take the costs off what you claimed | 15 min | 10 min | 2 min | Shows the margin and each line behind it. You check the gaps it names. |
| Check each cost line against the job budget | 30 min | 15 min | 1 min | Shows each budget line against what it has cost, and which line is over. |
| Total, each month, on each job | 120 min | 75 min | 3 min |
How to do it in YourCA
Questions subbies ask
- Who can see the margin?
- Only people whose role runs pay, because the labour line shows rates.
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