Markup and margin calculator for contractors
Type what a job costs you and your markup, or the margin you want to keep, and see what to charge. Free, with no account.
- Charge
- $1,250.00
- Profit
- $250.00
- Cost
- $1,000.00
- Markup
- 25%
- Margin
- 20%
Markup or margin?
Markup is your profit as a share of your cost. Margin is your profit as a share of the price. On a $1,000 job you charge $1,250 for, the $250 profit is a 25% markup but a 20% margin.
The gap matters when you mean one and price with the other. If you need a 25% margin and add 25% to cost, you keep 20%. To keep 25%, the markup has to be 33.3%.
Price from a margin: price = cost ÷ (1 − margin). Price from a markup: price = cost × (1 + markup).
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Common markups as margins
| Markup | Margin |
|---|---|
| 10% | 9.1% |
| 15% | 13% |
| 20% | 16.7% |
| 25% | 20% |
| 30% | 23.1% |
| 35% | 25.9% |
| 40% | 28.6% |
| 50% | 33.3% |
| 75% | 42.9% |
| 100% | 50% |