03/05/2026
Contractors, real question.
When you add up EVERYTHING, what do you actually make per hour?
NOT what you charge… what you actually take home after factoring in:
• Estimates that never turn into jobs
• Store runs
• Design / planning time
• Tool costs
• Customer changing s*t around mid project, scheduling subcontractors, etc.
When you divide that across the year, are you making $40–$60+/hr?
Or does the real number end up lower?
A follow up to that is;
If a remodeling company handled sales, estimates, scheduling, and pickup/delivery of materials, and all you had to do was show up and build…
Would you take $30–$40/hr guaranteed?
Or would you still rather run everything yourself?
Curious where most contractors actually land at.