Short answer
Price from cost, not from a competitor's number. Take bare material and labor cost per unit, scale it to your local market, add 15% to 25% on materials and 20% to 35% on labor, then add 10% to 20% overhead and profit. Pick your trade below to see that worked out per work item, free and with no signup.
6 work items priced
$1.93 to $3.02 per sq ft, hang, tape and finish (level 4)
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$1.05 to $1.65 per sq ft, interior walls, two coats
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$399 to $665 per square, architectural asphalt shingles, installed
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$8.25 to $13.76 per sq ft, 4 inch slab on grade, broom finish
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$136 to $253 per device, add receptacle or switch (existing wall)
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$274 to $487 per fixture, toilet replacement
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$4.55 to $7.58 per sq ft, luxury vinyl plank, floating
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$6,772 to $12,038 per system, 3 ton system changeout, 14-16 seer2
Every rate starts from a national baseline for bare material and labor cost, gets scaled by a published city cost index for your ZIP, then has markup and overhead applied on top. The full arithmetic is printed on each trade page, because a pricing number you cannot check is a pricing number you should not use.
The reliable method is to build up from cost rather than guess at a market price. Start with bare material and labor cost per unit, adjust for your local market, add markup on each to cover waste and supervision, then add overhead and profit. Anything else is copying a competitor's number without knowing whether they are making money.
15% to 25% on materials and 20% to 35% on labor is common for residential work, followed by 10% to 20% for overhead and profit on the subtotal. Markup and margin are not the same thing: a 20% markup on cost is only a 16.7% margin on the sale price.
They are a national baseline scaled by a published city cost index for your 3 digit ZIP prefix, which gets you close for planning. They are not a quote. Local wage rates, competition, and site conditions all move the real number, so treat this as a way to sanity-check your own price book rather than replace it.
Yes, entirely, with no signup and no email required. It exists because contractors who price from a real price book rather than from memory get better outcomes, which is also what our paid estimating product is built around.
Describe the job in plain words and Takeoff Convert prices it from your own price book, then produces an itemized proposal your client can e-sign.
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