Electrical
Electrical Service Call Profit Calculator
Check the direct contribution of electrical service calls after diagnostic time, supplied parts and return attendance.
Result
Gross profit is what is left after the cost of doing the job. Overhead comes out of that: the building, the office wages, the vans, insurance, software and advertising. A healthy gross margin still loses money if overhead is larger.
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- Match collected or earned service revenue with the calls being reviewed.
- Include paid travel and diagnostic labour according to your job-costing policy.
- Allocate the costs of callbacks that relate to those original visits.
Where this one goes wrong
The on-site repair can be the shortest part of a service call. If travel, diagnosis and obtaining a part are missing from labour cost, a low call-out price may appear sustainable while the van loses money across the day.
Questions
About this calculator
Can I review a single call here?
Yes, by entering that call's revenue and direct costs. Treat any working-day allocation as a reporting convention, not a measured duration of the visit.
How should a credited diagnostic charge be handled?
Use the actual total revenue after the credit. Adding the full diagnostic fee and the unreduced repair price counts an amount the customer did not pay.
Does the resulting profit cover all business costs?
This is gross contribution. Office support, unallocated fleet costs and other overhead still have to be recovered from the combined service workload.
The formula
gross profit = revenue - direct costs
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How to use this calculator
- Revenue ($). Enter your own figure; the page starts at $34,500.
- Direct labour ($). Enter your own figure; the page starts at $16,000.
- Materials and equipment ($). Enter your own figure; the page starts at $11,000.
- Other direct costs ($). Enter your own figure; the page starts at $2,200.
The result updates as you type, so you can try a figure, see what it does to gross profit, and change it back. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere or saved.
A worked example
These are the figures the calculator opens with. Every number in the results column below is produced by the same calculation the page runs, so you can follow it through before putting your own figures in.
What goes in
| Input | Value |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $34,500 |
| Direct labour | $16,000 |
| Materials and equipment | $11,000 |
| Other direct costs | $2,200 |
What comes out
| Result | Value |
|---|---|
| Gross profit main result | $5,300 |
| Gross margin | 15.4% |
| Total direct cost | $29,200 |
| Profit per working day | $240.91 |
That is $5,300 at a 15.4% margin, about $240.91 for every working day. Overhead still has to come out of it.
How sensitive the answer is
Holding everything else steady and changing only revenue, this is what happens to gross profit. It is worth knowing which of your inputs the answer actually hinges on, and which barely move it.
| Revenue ($) | Gross profit |
|---|---|
| $17,250 | -$11,950 |
| $25,875 | -$3,325 |
| $34,500 example above | $5,300 |
| $51,750 | $22,550 |
| $69,000 | $39,800 |
Every other input is held at the example value while this one changes, which is not how a real job behaves. Treat it as a guide to which number matters most, not as five separate quotes.
What each figure means
- Revenue ($)
- A money amount, starting at $34,500.
- Direct labour ($)
- A money amount, starting at $16,000.
- Materials and equipment ($)
- A money amount, starting at $11,000.
- Other direct costs ($)
- A money amount, starting at $2,200.
What the results tell you
| Result | What it is |
|---|---|
| Gross profit | The headline result. A money figure. |
| Gross margin | A percentage. |
| Total direct cost | A money figure. |
| Profit per working day | A money figure. |
Before you rely on this number
Conductor sizing, voltage drop and load figures are governed by code, and the code takes precedence over any calculator. Ambient temperature, conduit fill, continuous load factors and the specific installation all change the answer. Treat this as a first pass, not a design.
Estimating is the easy part
The jobs you never hear about cost more than the ones you mis-measure. BDEVY builds the marketing, systems and automation that bring them in.