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Markup vs Margin Calculator

Enter your job cost and one number you know. Get the sell price, profit, markup percent, and margin percent, side by side. This is where a lot of contractors quietly leave money on the table.

Your numbers

Everything the job costs you: materials, labor, subs, overhead allocation.

Result

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Sell price
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Profit
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Markup
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Margin
The trap: a 40% markup is not a 40% margin. Marking up an $8,000 job by 40% gets you $11,200, but that is only a 28.6% margin. Charge to hit a margin, not a markup, or your real profit comes out lower than you think.

Know your real profit on every job

Krewbase is built by the crew behind Workhand, a job app for contractors. Track cost, price, and profit per job in real time so the margin you quoted is the margin you keep.

See Workhand profit tracking

Markup vs margin: the difference

Both describe the gap between what a job costs you and what you charge. They just measure it against different numbers.

Because the sell price is always bigger than the cost, the margin percent is always smaller than the markup percent for the same job. Quote off markup while thinking in margin and you undercharge every time.

Markup to margin conversion

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To hit a target margin, the markup you need is: markup = margin / (100 − margin) × 100. A 30% margin needs a ~42.9% markup.