Estimate only — not a licensed bid, appraisal, or tax advice. Numbers stay in your browser.
Bid worksheet
How to calculate overhead and profit in construction (with a live stack)
The how-to is the stack: know direct cost, apply overhead recovery, then profit. This page is the calculator version of that lesson — construction bidding only, not insurance “O&P on a claim.”
Line-item workbenchLive calc
Bid stack
- Direct cost
- $8,000.00
- Overhead
- $960.00
- After overhead
- $8,960.00
- Profit
- $896.00
- Bid
- $9,856.00
Markup 10.0% · Margin 9.1%
Common questions
Annual overhead ÷ annual direct cost (or revenue) — stay consistent.
No.
Same math family; this page leans into the how-to search intent.
Usually after or beside OH, before or with profit — see the contingency and bid calculators.