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How To Price Labour On Trade Jobs

How to price labour on trade jobs comes down to one shift: you are not pricing the install, you are pricing the full labour chain around the job. Most trades quote labour from a gut-feel hourly rate that never really covers holiday and sick pay, pension, tools, the van and downtime - so the job looks profitable but barely breaks even. This video breaks down why that leads to underquoting, and how to build an hourly rate that covers the true cost of an hour on the job.

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How To Build A Price Book For Trades

How to build a price book for trades, and why it is the memory of how your business prices repeat work. Re-quoting every job from scratch wastes hours and leads to inconsistent prices. This video shows how to build a reusable pricing catalogue - a price book - for your common trade tasks and materials, so you quote faster, price consistently, and stop leaving money on the table.

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Why Trades Underprice Their Work

Why trades underprice their work usually has nothing to do with working harder - plenty of flat-out trades still barely break even. This video explains the real causes: confusing markup with margin, forgetting overhead and non-productive time, and pricing against the competition instead of their own costs - and what to change to price for real profit.

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How To Price Labour For Different Site Types

How to price labour for different site types comes down to one split: fit time measures the task, uplift measures the site. Two jobs can carry the same task, the same materials and the same fit time and still return completely different margins, because access, procedures, occupancy, restrictions and coordination change how much productive time the day really holds. This video walks through pricing labour by site type - a clean base fit time, then a separate site uplift - with starting bands from easy open new-builds up to highly restricted sites, and shows exactly how an 8-hour job becomes 9.2, 10.8 or 12 hours once the site is priced in.

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How To Price Materials For Trade Jobs

How to price materials for trade jobs starts with one idea: you are not just pricing the materials, you are pricing the cost of getting the right materials onto the job. This video walks through the four costs to check before you add any markup - a realistic base supplier price, the consumables and pack sizes used around the main items, delivery, waste and hire, and the time spent organising the order - and shows how a cheapest-online basket of GBP 920 becomes a realistic GBP 1,100 once those are counted. Pricing materials for trade jobs this way keeps cost and markup separate, so markup stops being a hiding place for costs you missed.

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Markup On Materials: Why The Same % On Everything Loses Money

Markup on materials goes wrong when the same percentage goes on everything: 15% adds £75 to a £500 item but only 7.5p to a 50p fixing. This video sets out the Markup Ladder, four levels for pricing materials. Normal materials start around 10–20%. Small and pack-based items may need far more, such as 100% or 200% on a 50p fixing, until the quantity makes the total excessive. Specialist items need a risk and procurement check. Managed costs like skips, hire and delivery need the work behind them covered somewhere in the quote. The rule: the cheaper the item, the higher the markup may need to be, unless quantity changes the result.

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How To Price Variations On Trade Jobs — The "Can You Just?" Trap

How to price variations on trade jobs starts before the extra work does, with an original quote that shows what was included. This video works through the Can You Just Trap: small on-site requests that still use labour, materials and time, but never make it onto the job record or the invoice. Using a customer who asks for an 11th socket on a 10-socket quote, it sets out a four-step process - confirm the change, record it, price it and get approval before the work starts where possible. It also covers when a quoted variation beats time and materials, why a variation should stay separate but linked to the original job, and the three mistakes to avoid.

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Job Costing For Trades: What Your Finished Jobs Are Telling You

Job costing for trades starts once the job is done: put the hours booked against the hours you quoted and work out which number was wrong. This video works through one example, 10 sockets at 60 minutes plus the cable fit times, 16 hours quoted and 18 actual. It shows how to tell a rate problem from a fit time problem, the three questions to ask when the hours run over, and why work that never got invoiced is the first thing to check. Two hours at £45 is £90. Do that job 20 times a year and it is £1,800 you never charged for. Change one number at a time, and never off the back of a single job.

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