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Fiscal Year Budget
Revenue goals, margin targets and overhead factors that drive job health math and executive reporting.
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Revenue & Margin Targets

Top-line target the agency is pacing against this fiscal year.

Margin a job should clear to be rated healthy.

Below this a job is flagged at risk.

Labor & Overhead Factors

Pooled benefits and payroll taxes applied to direct wages.

Dynamic PM hours as a percentage of estimated design hours.

Fixed admin/billing dollar amount booked to every job.

G&A buffer applied to the total job selling price.

Sample Job Rollup
How these factors apply to a $10,000 job with 60 design hours, $3,600 direct wages, $500 hard costs and a $65/h PM cost rate pulled from the PM's profile.

Loaded wages

$4,392

PM overhead (9.0 h)

$585

Admin flat cost

$90

G&A buffer

$800

Hard costs

$500

Total burdened cost

$6,367

Gross profit

$3,633

Margin vs. target

36.3%
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Target 40% · floor 25%