The fastest way to underprice work is to start with the customer price and work backward emotionally. Start with the job's real cost, choose the margin your business needs, then calculate the minimum selling price that protects it.
Check a real job free →The useful question is not “what does everyone charge?” It is “what does this job cost my business, and what price protects the margin I chose?”
Protected price = cost basis ÷ (1 − target margin)This is the simple gross-margin relationship behind a cost-based protected price. Your real model may also need tax, payment fees, overhead allocation, contingency or other inputs you choose to include.
At $850 of entered job cost and a 35% target margin, the protected selling price is about $1,308. That leaves 35% of the selling price after those entered costs.
Paste the real job. MarginPact extracts the scope facts it can support, asks you for the economics it cannot know, calculates a protected recommendation from your inputs, and lets you carry the same job into your workspace to create a customer quote.
Run the Free Price Check →Your cost basis should establish the minimum sustainable price. Market conditions can influence the final quote, but they should not erase your economics.
Loaded labor can include wages or owner labor value plus payroll burden, benefits and other labor costs you choose to include.
Yes. MarginPact's Free Price Check can carry the job and economics into a MarginPact workspace, where you can create a customer-ready quote.
Use the same Free Price Check that feeds MarginPact's protected pricing and quote workflow.