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Construction Overhead Percentage: How to Calculate Your Real Number

TradeBooks overhead plan screen calculating a construction overhead percentage from annual categories and planned revenue

TL;DR Most contractors are estimating with an overhead number nobody ever calculated. It is 10%, a round figure that felt about right, or something another contractor said he uses. Your real construction overhead percentage is total annual overhead divided by realistic annual revenue. Both halves of that have to be right. The revenue half does […]

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