10/19/2026
A contractor can bring in $1.5 million a year, have crews booked for months, and still wonder where all the money went.
Here's why. Revenue isn't profit.
A $100,000 job might leave you with $25,000 after direct costs. Take out overhead, and you could be looking at just $7,000 in operating profit.
The problem isn't always that you need more jobs. Sometimes you need to understand what the jobs you already have are actually earning.
When was the last time you compared what you estimated a job would cost to what it actually cost?
Full post on the blog. Link in bio.