How Much Should I Charge for a Concrete Job?
The driveway was 600 square feet and the price felt right. Then the pump truck, the extra rebar and the short load came in. You poured a good slab and a thin profit.
Put in your own numbers. The calculator adds your overhead, prices the job to the margin you want, and shows what you keep.
Concrete Job Price Calculator
- Materials$2,700.00
- Labour$1,350.00
- Pump Truck and Equipment$800.00
- Overhead$727.50
- Job cost$5,577.50
Questions
How do I price a concrete job by the square foot?
Measure the slab in square feet. Put the concrete, rebar or mesh, base gravel and forms per square foot in Materials per Sq Ft. A thicker slab takes more concrete for every square foot, so work it out for the job in front of you.
How do I price a small concrete job?
A small pad still costs the trip, the setup and the minimum load. Put those in Pump Truck and Equipment as one number, so a small job carries its fixed costs instead of hiding them.
Markup or margin: which should I use to price a concrete job?
Price from margin. Markup is your profit as a share of your cost. Margin is your profit as a share of the price. They are not the same number: mark a $1,000 cost up 30% and you charge $1,300, but your margin is 23%, because $300 is 23% of $1,300. Price from the margin you want and you know what you keep.
Should overhead go into the price of a concrete job?
Yes. Your truck, insurance, phone, tools and the hours you spend quoting jobs you don't win are all paid for by the jobs you do win. A simple way to set it: add up last year's overhead, divide it by last year's job costs, and use that percentage here.
How do I turn this price into a concrete quote?
Sign up for HomeJet free and build the quote with a line for each part of the job: materials, labour and the extras. HomeJet adds your sales tax. The quote stays on the job with the photos and notes, so when it's accepted your crew already has what they need and the invoice comes from the same lines. It's free for one-person businesses, with no credit card.
You Priced the Margin. Now Keep It.
A good price only holds if the job runs clean. In HomeJet the quote, the photos, the notes and your crew's updates live on one job, so nobody chases details by text and nothing falls through the cracks. Less chaos, fewer mistakes, more of this margin kept. Free for one-person businesses, no credit card.