Job Costing Pittsfield MA

Most estimators assume that eight hours on the jobsite are eight productive hours. With no job costing, you'll never discover how misguided that assumption is.

Local Companies

Comalli Electric Inc
(413) 663-6444
Pittsfield, MA
Cote Renovation Co
(413) 442-4351
Pittsfield, MA
Pittsfield Roofing Inc
(413) 443-6689
77 Park St
Pittsfield, MA
Baystate Home Improvement
(413) 443-1873
583 E New Lenox Rd
Pittsfield, MA
Berkshire County Locks & Maintenance
(413) 499-6677
Pittsfield, MA
Wenzel's Bruce General Contracting Inc
(508) 759-5132
Buzzards Bay, MA
Northbay Associates
(508) 760-4949
91 South St
Yarmouth Port, MA
Chartier's General Carpentry
(413) 789-7011
59 Reed St
Agawam, MA
Annette's Builders Construction & Home Improvement Inc
(508) 897-0400
Brockton, MA
Madison Construction
(413) 532-1312
Westfield, MA


There's a debate currently raging surrounding the relative merits of time and materials billing vs. fixed-price contracts.

In most respects, I think it's no contest: Fixed pricing wins hands down for lots of reasons. It holds the potential for higher margins. It provides a strong incentive to clients and remodelers alike to buy right. And it keeps clients' prying eyes away from parts of the business, like markup, that they wouldn't understand anyway.

There's a dark side to fixed-price contracts, however, and it has to do with what is perceived to be another advantage: Fixed-price contracts are easy to administrate.

What turns this advantage into a liability? Most remodelers working with fixed-price contracts pay attention to costs just long enough to price and sell the job. After that, they can apply for scheduled draws or so-called progress payments without ever taking another look at how the actual costs of construction squares with their estimate.

Paid as You Go

Unfortunately, profit depends not just on what you sell the job for but on how much you spend to produce it. T&M contracts won't solve this problem — they're too open-ended — but cost-plus contracts just might. They may be time-consuming to administrate, but so is job costing. That's why most remodelers either don't do it or wait until long after the job is over to find out whether or not they made any money.

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ACE Line Striping

518-785-0096
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East Greenbush, NY

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