Job Profitability Calculator

Revenue is what the job brought in. Profit is what is left once the work is paid for. A job that invoiced 6,000 dollars and took 5,400 dollars of labor, materials and subcontractor time made 600 dollars, and no amount of extra work at that price will fix it.

This calculator holds two numbers apart that trades often treat as one. Expected profit comes from the estimate you priced the job on. Actual profit comes from the hours you really worked and the materials you really bought. The gap between them is the number worth reading, because it tells you whether the estimate was light, the day ran long, or a supplier price moved after you quoted.

Hours nobody wrote down are still hours somebody worked, and they still cost money. Leaving them out does not make a job more profitable. It only makes the answer less true. A discount behaves the same way: taking 300 dollars off at the end takes 300 dollars straight out of profit, because none of the job costs went down with it. That is why a discount here reduces revenue and never reduces the quoted price the estimate was built on.

Sales tax is left out on purpose. It is not part of what the job earned, so enter every figure before tax.

Zeus records hours, materials, expenses and payments against the job while the work is happening, so the actual numbers are already there when you want to check one.