Northline Paintings | Command Center Numbers

1. True cost per production hour

What one hour of painting actually costs your company, once overhead, labor burden and unbillable time are counted.

Yearly overheadRent, insurance, trucks, software, marketing, office staff, owner pay

Painters on the crewFull-time equivalents

Average hourly wageWhat you pay per hour

Labor burdenPayroll tax, workers comp, insurance on top of wages

Paid hours per painter per year2,080 is a full 40 hour week

Hours actually spent paintingAfter drive time, setup, cleanup, weather, slow weeks

Target gross marginWhat you want to keep after job costs

True cost of one production hour

Labor per hour

Overhead per hour

Billable hours per year

Charge per hour at target margin

Build the price from your real hourly cost, so every job you sell makes the margin you chose.

Job nameFor your own reference

Estimated production hoursTotal crew hours, all painters

MaterialsPaint, primer, tape, supplies

Other job costsSubs, equipment rental, disposal

Competing bid, if you know itOptional, to see what it would do to your profit

Price this job to hit your margin

Your cost to do the job

Gross profit at that price

Markup of only 20% gives

Real margin on a 20% markup

What each ad dollar books, from first enquiry to signed job. Type in last month's figures.

Ad spend

New enquiries

Qualified estimates booked

Estimates that showed up

Jobs won

Average job value

Measure	Result
Cost per enquiry	-
Cost per qualified estimate booked	-
Cost per estimate that showed	-
Cost per job won	-
Enquiry to booked estimate	-
Show rate	-
Close rate on estimates that showed	-
Revenue won	-
Revenue per ad dollar	-