Overview
Most contractors find out a job lost money the same way they find out the truck needs a new transmission — too late, and the hard way. The Job Profitability Tracker is the feedback loop that closes the gap between what you quoted and what you actually made. Enter the job, log your labor hours, log your materials, and the workbook tells you the real margin in dollars and as a percentage. Run a few months of jobs through it and patterns show up: which service categories are profitable, which customers are profitable, and which jobs you should stop taking entirely.
What's inside
- Per-job entry form: customer, service type, quoted price, actual labor hours, actual materials, subcontractor costs
- Automatic margin calculation in dollars and as a percentage of revenue
- Labor variance tracker — how badly (or how well) you estimated the hours
- Material variance tracker — same idea, for parts and supplies
- Service-category rollup — which types of jobs are actually making money
- Customer profitability rollup — which customers are worth keeping
- Monthly and YTD summary dashboard
- Editable Excel workbook (opens in Google Sheets too)
Who it's for
Any trade contractor who's quoted enough jobs to suspect that some of them are losers but doesn't have the data to prove it. Especially useful for solo operators and small crews who don't have the time or the software budget for a full job-costing platform but still need to know whether their pricing math is actually working in the field.
Why this matters
Your hourly rate, your flat rate book, and your estimating skills are all predictions. The Profitability Tracker is what turns predictions into evidence. After 20-30 jobs you'll know exactly where your quotes are off, which means your next quote is calibrated against real data instead of gut feel. That's the difference between a contractor who stays profitable when costs change and one who finds out three months later that the job they were proud of actually lost $400.
Works best with
Tradesman Office products are designed to work together. Each one feeds into the next — so what you buy here compounds instead of sitting alone in a folder.
- Break-Even Labor Rate Calculator — Set your true hourly rate before you quote
- Flat Rate Price Books — Quote consistently using a calibrated catalog
- Contractor Forms Bundle — Document the work so the numbers you log are clean
See the full system on our How It All Works page.
Why buy from Tradesman Office
Every product in the shop is built by a working electrician — someone who actually uses these tools on real job sites. That means they're calibrated to the problems contractors actually face, not the problems a software designer guessed at from a spreadsheet.
- Excel-first. Buy once, own forever. No subscription, no vendor lock-in.
- Works on any device. Excel, Google Sheets, iPad — wherever you quote from.
- Part of a complete system. Every product here works with the others. See the full flow on our How It All Works page.
- Fast support. Message through Etsy and get a response from the founder within one business day.