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MarginWorkshop helps contractor business owners price jobs, staff crews, and buy equipment with real numbers instead of gut feel, not guesswork.
Pricing & Bids
Labor cost, crew rate, markup vs margin, and minimum profitable bid decisions.
Business Economics
Overhead break-even, owner income targets, and service call pricing.
Equipment
Equipment hourly cost, rent vs buy, repair vs replace, and fleet vehicle and truck stock decisions.
Staffing
Hire vs overtime and second-crew break-even decisions.
HVAC
Maintenance agreement pricing, seasonal capacity planning, and dispatch economics for HVAC owners.
Plumbing
Truck stocking, crew mix, callback cost, and maintenance plan decisions for plumbing contractors.
Growth & Organization
Crew economics, hiring thresholds, and management layer decisions for owners scaling past one crew.
Sales & Customer Economics
Acquisition cost, lead volume, recurring contract value, and lifetime-value decisions.
Cash & Capital
Reserve sizing, receivables, retainage, and credit line decisions for cash flow and growth runway.
Live Engines
- Loaded Labor Cost
- Crew Cost & Required Billable Rate
- Markup vs. Margin
- Job Profit Check
- Overhead Allocation & Break-Even Revenue
- Owner Income to Required Revenue
- Service Call & Trip Charge Pricing
- Change Order Price Calculator
- Equipment Hourly Cost & Rent vs. Buy
- Hire vs. Overtime / Second Crew Break-Even
- HVAC Maintenance Agreement Pricing & Renewal Profitability
- HVAC Seasonal Capacity Planning
- HVAC Billable Technician Rate & Dispatch Radius
- Price Increase Impact Simulator
- Employee vs. Subcontractor Cost Comparison
- Weekly Job Capacity Calculator
- Truck Stock Inventory Carrying Cost
- Crew Mix Economics (Apprentice vs. Journeyman)
- Callback and Warranty Cost Allocation
- Plumbing Maintenance & Inspection Plan Pricing
- Crew Contribution Margin
- Revenue per Crew Benchmark
- Revenue per Field Employee
- Crew Utilization Rate & Idle Capacity Cost
- Staffing Trigger Point
- Next Crew Break-Even
- Backlog Required Before Hiring a Crew
- Working Capital Required for a New Crew
- Crew Bonus/Incentive Structure Break-Even
- Apprentice-to-Journeyman Ratio Economics
- Owner Field Labor vs. Management Time (Owner Replacement Cost)
- First Manager / Working Foreman Break-Even
- Office Manager / Dispatcher Break-Even
- Estimator Hire Break-Even
- Operations Manager Break-Even
- Management Span of Control Cost
- Revenue Required for Next Management Layer
- Branch / Second-Location Expansion Break-Even
- Salesperson Break-Even & Commission Structure
- Management Overhead Introduced by Growth
- Customer Acquisition Cost
- Sales Conversion & Required Lead Volume
- Required Sales Pipeline Before Adding a Crew
- Recurring Contract Value
- Customer Cancellation / Churn Cost
- Repeat Customer / Referral Value
- Customer LTV : CAC Ratio
- Minimum Job Size Threshold
- Geographic / Service Zone Pricing
- Emergency / After-Hours Premium Pricing
- Payroll Reserve / Cash Buffer
- Operating Reserve Sizing
- Receivables & Payment Terms Cash Impact
- Deposit Policy Impact on Cash & Risk
- Retainage Impact on Cash Flow
- Growth Cash Crunch / Expansion Runway
- Line of Credit Sizing for Seasonal Cash Gaps
- Discount Impact on Required Volume
- Raise Prices or Chase Volume
- Material Markup Policy
- Repair vs. Replace Work Truck
- Vehicle Downtime Cost
- Spare Vehicle / Backup Truck Break-Even
- Additional Truck Break-Even
- Lease vs. Buy Vehicle
- Equipment Utilization vs. Additional Purchase
- Financing Payback Period
- Crew Capacity vs. Booked Demand Gap
- Demand Needed for Another Crew
- Cash Conversion Cycle
- Seasonal Capacity & Staffing Smoothing