What this one covers
- 1
What overhead is, the six costs that are genuinely arguable, and the only rule that matters: sort them once and never move them.
- 2
What an hour really costs: overhead per billable hour on top of the burdened wage, and the assumption in the denominator that makes every bid too cheap.
- 3
Ray and Dana's whole year side by side, and what it does to the ranking of every job in the series.
The sheets
Prices are mine. Yours are different. The math is the same.
Ledge is landscape design-build software. These sheets are the thinking underneath it.
The sheet teaches the math once. Ledge carries it on every job after: the burdened hour, the man-hours the price bought, and what the crew actually did against it, side by side the day the truck is unloaded. The first ten landscape design-build firms run it free, and we make money only when your client pays you. If you want to see it on your own jobs, you talk to me.