Compare estimated against actual cost per category on a job, and see where the money actually went.
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| Category | Estimated | Actual | |
|---|---|---|---|
The gap between estimated and actual per category is the only reliable way to improve the next quote. One number for the whole job tells you it went wrong, not where.
Because a job that lost money on labor and made it back on materials needs a different fix from one that overran everywhere. A single number tells you the outcome and nothing about the cause.
Keep it out of the job and recover it through your rate or markup. Allocating overhead per job makes small jobs look unprofitable and big ones look better than they are, and it makes the categories incomparable between jobs.
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