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Oct 12, 2026
Do you know what it actually costs to operate your contracting business for one hour?
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4:08Tom ReberHOST
You've got payroll taxes, workers' comp, other costs that come with employing somebody.
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4:14Tom ReberHOST
For this example, we'll use a 1.4 labor burden.
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4:18Tom ReberHOST
Okay? Yours might be different.
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4:20Tom ReberHOST
All right? That takes a $30 an hour wage and puts the actual burden labor cost at about 42 an hour.
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4:26Tom ReberHOST
What we're saying with the 1.4 is about 40% of the hourly wage you're gonna have to pay as a company, all right, in labor burden.
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4:34Tom ReberHOST
Now, we've got the two pieces we're looking for.
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4:37Tom ReberHOST
We've allocated about 50 bucks of overhead to each billable hour, and the field labor costs, uh, cost us about 42 bucks an hour.
Why Doubling Your Margins Starts With Your Pricing
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10:42April EdwardsHOST
Um, such a good thing.
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10:45April EdwardsHOST
So what about labor? What's, uh, tell me more about, like, a labor burden when it comes to pricing.
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10:52April EdwardsHOST
What does that really include, and do you find that that's really far off? Um-
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10:57Brad HuebnerGUEST
Oh, almost always.
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10:59April EdwardsHOST
Okay.
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10:59Brad HuebnerGUEST
It is.
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11:00Brad HuebnerGUEST
And I didn't, I don't, I didn't tell you guys, we were [laughs] before we end talking about links, I have a labor burden worksheet that actually will-
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11:05April EdwardsHOST
Oh