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Estimate Labor for Subbase Grading

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How to Bid Excavating and Grading

What happens here

Calculate the estimated labor hours required for grading the subbase. In this example, 15 hours are estimated for grading at a rate of $105 per hour. This labor cost must be clearly stated in the proposal to the client. This includes time for operating a skid loader or other grading equipment.

Goal: Determine the labor cost for grading the subbase.

Tools and materials

  • Calculator — Calculating labor costs
  • Skid Loader — Grading and leveling the subbase

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step so we're going to break this Pro this proposal down this estimate down step by step by step so we understand it we're going to put that all in the same steps to the customer so they understand it when they're confident in The Proposal when they're confident in the contract you're going to get more work okay so we're going to look at this whole area and we're going to guesstimate I don't know what other scientific word to use how long it's going to take to grade this out that comes through experience that comes through doing smaller jobs and then working your way up to a bigger project like this so we're going to guesstimate how many hours we're going to put into this thing and then we're going to qualify those hours on the proposal so on the proposal we're going to say we're going to grade out the existing subgrade for 15 hours at $105 an hour something like that that way if it takes 16 we can charge them an extra hour if we don't take 15 well then we you know we may

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