Count the real cost
Labor means wages plus payroll burden. Overhead means the truck, insurance, software, and office costs every job must help carry.
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Price the job.
Keep the profit.
Stop confusing markup with margin. MarginBrace turns your real labor, materials, overhead, and fees into a price that protects the profit you planned to make.
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JOB PRICE CHECKLIVE
Recommended price$1,862
- Real job cost
- $1,154
- Protected profit
- $652
- Gross margin
- 35.0%
MARGIN CHECKED
Know your floorSee the break-even price
Count every costLabor, overhead, fees, risk
Protect the marginPrice backward from your goal
Free job pricing calculator
Build a price you can stand behind.
Use a sample job or enter your own numbers. Nothing is uploaded.
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Job inputs
Use costs to your business—not what you charge customers.
Target gross margin35%
If you add 20% to cost, you do not make a 20% margin.
On this job, cost + 20% produces a 13.7% margin, versus your 35% target.The margin method
A better price starts with honest costs.
Choose the margin
Your target is profit as a percentage of the selling price—not a percentage simply added on top of cost.
Price backward
MarginBrace solves for the selling price after costs and payment fees, so the margin left over matches the target you chose.
THE CORE FORMULA
Selling price = total job cost ÷ (1 − target margin − payment fee)
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The calculator stays free. MarginBrace Pro will add repeatable price books and customer-ready documents without becoming another bloated field-service platform.
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- Break-even and margin check
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Pro$39/year
- Saved jobs and reusable settings
- Service price-book builder
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- Job history and margin reports