PRICING, PROFITABILITY & OPERATING TOOLS
MarginForge builds practical Excel tools for contractors and home-service businesses who want clearer visibility into labor cost, job pricing, margins, overhead recovery, and job profitability.
Calculate employer labor cost per productive hour and see the billable labor rate required at different margin targets.
$11.99 • Focused labor tool
What should this job sell for?
Combine labor and direct job costs, add contingency, select a target gross margin, and calculate the required selling price.
$19.99 • Focused job-pricing tool
Do I need the complete pricing system?
Model labor, direct costs, overhead, gross margin and contribution economics—then compare the estimate with completed-job results.
$49 • Complete workflow
MarginForge Home Service Pricing & Job Profitability Pro combines loaded labor modeling, overhead recovery, direct gross-margin pricing, sustainable contribution pricing, Recommended Sell Price, estimate-vs-actual analysis, completed-job history, and management reporting in one professional Excel workbook.
Choose Pro when you need more than a single calculation—you need a repeatable pricing and profitability process.
Straight hourly wage rarely represents the full cost of a productive field hour.
Labor, materials, subcontractors, equipment, contingency, and other job costs create the basis for pricing.
Recover overhead deliberately
Gross margin alone does not guarantee that a job supports the fixed costs of the business.
Start with the problem you need to solve today, or choose MarginForge Pro for the complete pricing and profitability workflow.
Best for understanding true field labor cost.
Best for pricing a specific job to a target margin.
Best for complete pricing and profitability management.
Not sure where to start? If you don't yet know your true loaded labor cost, start with the Labor Cost & Burden Calculator.
Calculate loaded labor cost for free
Estimate the annual employer cost and loaded cost per productive hour for one field employee. Then use the paid Labor Cost & Burden Calculator when you need multiple roles, margin scenarios, blended team rates, and a reusable Excel model.
A field employee who earns $28.00 per hour can cost the business significantly more once payroll burden, workers' compensation, benefits, paid nonproductive time, bonuses and other employment costs are included.
Practical explanations of the pricing, labor, overhead and job-costing concepts behind better business decisions.
Build pricing from direct job costs, loaded labor, overhead and margin targets.
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Understand the true cost of field labor beyond the employee’s hourly wage.
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Turn annual overhead into a practical job-level recovery method.
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See why a 40% markup does not produce a 40% gross margin.
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Compare the quote with completed-job performance and improve future estimates.
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Built for operators who want to understand the numbers.
MarginForge, LLC builds practical pricing, profitability and operating tools around transparent calculations and clearly stated assumptions. Our goal is to help business owners make better-informed decisions without hiding the economics behind a black box.
MarginForge tools support business decisions—they don't replace them. You remain responsible for verifying your inputs, assumptions, calculations, pricing and outputs before using them in quotes, bids, proposals or contracts.
