Know your numbers. Build with confidence.

Financial clarity for the business behind the work.

BuildMetric gives contractors transparent calculators for pricing labor, protecting margin, and making better business decisions.

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A healthier estimate starts here

Cost is not price.

Your selling price must recover direct cost, overhead, nonbillable time, and profit. BuildMetric makes each layer visible.

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Contractor calculators

Start with the number you need to trust

Each tool solves one specific pricing question and shows the reasoning behind the result.

Markup vs. Margin

Convert markup, margin, cost, and selling price without confusing the two.

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Labor Burden

Estimate the true hourly cost of payroll taxes, insurance, and employee benefits.

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Billable Hourly Rate

Build a sustainable hourly rate from labor cost, overhead, utilization, and profit.

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Free planning resource

Use the Contractor Pricing Lab

See the formulas and worked example, then open the printable or downloadable worksheet. No email address, account, or calculator data is required.

Trace the numbers behind a price

Connect labor burden, direct job cost, markup or margin, annual capacity, and a target billable rate in one public resource.

Open Contractor Pricing Lab

The lab and worksheet open directly. This resource does not enroll you in email.

Built for decisions

Not a black box with a calculate button

Transparent by design

See every formula, assumption, and intermediate result so you can explain the number.

Grounded in reliable sources

We reference tax agencies, industry institutions, and primary documentation where it matters.

Made for real workflows

Mobile-first inputs, sensible defaults, clear limitations, and results you can use in an estimate.

Product roadmap

A contractor financial workspace, built in useful steps

The calculators work without an account today. We are expanding the same trusted math into faster estimating and planning workflows.

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Saved scenarios

Keep named calculations on this device and return to them later.

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Side-by-side comparisons

Compare pricing assumptions without rebuilding the same estimate.

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Branded reports

Turn a checked calculation into a clean internal or customer-ready summary.

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Downloadable worksheets

Use the printable contractor pricing worksheet without creating an account.