Estimate Labor Costs and Final Bid Price

177 square yards so we take 17 77 and then we divide it by 50 because that's how many square yard per hour this guy can put in that comes up to 3.54 hours so all that sod in this yard should be installed by one guy in 3.54 hours how much do you pay him an hour let's just say it's $20 an hour so we multiply 3.54 by 20 and that means it's going to cost us $70 to install that that side okay so now we have to convert that divide the 70 by 177 40 cents per square yard is what it's costing us so total total expense should be $32 that's your expense did you follow me we have the sad price here we have we CED out the transportation fee which came out to $150 a yard um and then we've also counted in all the other in line item all the other expenses to come up with the actual number that we need to know what it's costing us and now are you going to do this job at Cost you're the owner put some profit in there put 10% on top of it if you put 10% on this number you just simply add another 30 cents onto it so $332 a square yard it's going to vary don't go by these formulas try it and true use the idea of how to break it down and apply it to your area if you're in California what you're going to be doing for side jobs is not going to be the same so this is how I do my side jobs and you can just use this as an