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Pricing a job
Carry materials, labour, waste, overheads and VAT into a transparent customer price. Revise any earlier step to update the downstream budget. Your figures stay in this page’s memory, not in storage or the address.
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Your results
Carry materials, labour, waste, overheads and VAT into a transparent customer price.
Rules checked for 2026 on 2026-10-06. Scope: Revenue VAT recovery conditions; rates remain an explicit user selection requiring supply-specific confirmation.
Calculated outcomes
- Materials With Waste
- €880.00
- Waste Cost
- €80.00
- Labour Cost
- €400.00
- Allocated Overhead
- €150.00
- Subcontractors
- €200.00
- Purchase VAT
- €248.40
- Irrecoverable VAT
- €0.00
- Total Cost
- €1,630.00
- Output VAT
- €499.87
- Gross margin
- 25%
- Markup on cost
- 33.3333%
- VAT Treatment
- VAT registered; entered purchase VAT recovered
Included costs
- Materials including entered wastage, labour, subcontractors and allocated overhead
- Irrecoverable input VAT where applicable
- Customer VAT only when VAT registered
Excluded costs
- Income tax, corporation tax and contingency unless included in allocated costs
- Construction reverse-charge and mixed/exempt-supply VAT adjustments
- Recoverable purchase VAT is excluded from profit cost
Amount in euro. Negative values extend below the zero line.
| Item | Amount (EUR) |
|---|---|
| Cost | €1,630.00 |
| Profit | €543.33 |
| VAT | €499.87 |
| Price excluding VAT | €2,173.33 |
Assumptions and estimates
- Waste is added to materials once, not to labour or subcontractors.
- Allocated overhead is added once and is not uplifted by purchase VAT.
- Customer VAT is not revenue or profit. Full precision is retained until display.
- Method: Expand material requirements for waste once. Add labour, allocated overhead, subcontractors and any irrecoverable purchase VAT. Divide by one minus the target margin to obtain the VAT-exclusive selling price; charge customer VAT only if registered.
- Margin is profit divided by selling price; markup is profit divided by cost. Input-VAT recovery must be confirmed. Materials and subcontractors are VAT-exclusive, while overhead is already VAT-adjusted. Labour cost must not already contain the overhead allocation. Construction reverse-charge, mixed/exempt supplies, registration thresholds, contingency and business income taxes require separate professional confirmation.
Sources: Revenue VAT rates, Revenue reclaiming VAT
Useful next steps
- Confirm your VAT registration and which input VAT you can recover with your accountant or Revenue before quoting.
- Check the official sources above before relying on the figure.
- Copy, print or download a record of this calculation when you need one.
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How the workflow connects your figures
Expand material requirements for waste once. Add labour, allocated overhead, subcontractors and any irrecoverable purchase VAT. Divide by one minus the target margin to obtain the VAT-exclusive selling price; charge customer VAT only if registered.
Margin is profit divided by selling price; markup is profit divided by cost. Input-VAT recovery must be confirmed. Materials and subcontractors are VAT-exclusive, while overhead is already VAT-adjusted. Labour cost must not already contain the overhead allocation. Construction reverse-charge, mixed/exempt supplies, registration thresholds, contingency and business income taxes require separate professional confirmation.
Rules applied: 2026. Sources checked 2026-10-06: Revenue VAT recovery conditions; rates remain an explicit user selection requiring supply-specific confirmation. These are published rules, not proposed changes.
- Direct costs and wastage: Materials cost excluding VAT, before waste (€), Additional materials required for wastage (%), Labour hours, Labour cost per hour, excluding overhead (€), Subcontractor cost excluding VAT (€).
- Overhead and gross margin: Allocated overhead, already VAT-adjusted (€), Target gross margin (%).
- VAT and customer quote: VAT registered, Entered input VAT is recoverable, Materials purchase VAT (%), Subcontractor purchase VAT (%), Applicable customer VAT (%).
Worked example
Illustrative inputs, not a recommendation or quotation. Defaults can be changed above; this example does not describe your own circumstances.
See carried example inputs
- Materials cost excluding VAT, before waste (€)
- 800
- Additional materials required for wastage (%)
- 10
- Labour hours
- 16
- Labour cost per hour, excluding overhead (€)
- 25
- Allocated overhead, already VAT-adjusted (€)
- 150
- Subcontractor cost excluding VAT (€)
- 200
- Target gross margin (%)
- 25
- VAT registered
- Yes
- Entered input VAT is recoverable
- Yes
- Materials purchase VAT (%)
- 23%
- Subcontractor purchase VAT (%)
- 23%
- Applicable customer VAT (%)
- 23%
- Price Excluding VAT
- €2,173.33
- Customer Total
- €2,673.20
- Estimated Profit
- €543.33
Included
- Materials including entered wastage, labour, subcontractors and allocated overhead
- Irrecoverable input VAT where applicable
- Customer VAT only when VAT registered
Excluded
- Income tax, corporation tax and contingency unless included in allocated costs
- Construction reverse-charge and mixed/exempt-supply VAT adjustments
- Recoverable purchase VAT is excluded from profit cost