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Why most contractor bids leak 8–15% margin
1. No overhead in the rate. If your billable hourly is <3× your wage, your bid is paying customers to run your shop. Most spreadsheets quietly skip this.
2. Materials priced at cost, not retail. You're a buyer for them. They'd pay 20–35% over your cost at Home Depot anyway. Bake the markup in.
3. No contingency line. Every bid that didn't need its 5–10% contingency was a gift to the customer. Every bid that needed it but didn't have it was a hit on your profit.
4. Owner salary buried in overhead. If you're paying yourself out of "profit," you're broke when the quarter is slow. Owner salary belongs in the rate.
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