Paint cost is usually visible. Prep labor is where margins quietly disappear. Protect the job by costing prep, masking, repair, application and cleanup before settling on the customer price.
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 $1,560 of entered cost and a 35% target gross margin, the protected customer price is $2,400.
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 →Square-foot rules can speed estimating, but prep condition, coats, access and labor productivity still need to be reflected.
Include the labor and direct costs in the job cost basis or save a pricing rule that captures the work.
Yes. After pricing, the job can be saved into MarginPact and turned into a customer-facing quote.
Use the same Free Price Check that feeds MarginPact's protected pricing and quote workflow.