This will be super-helpful to those of you who have design/build skills and want to see dollar breakdowns for a project. Ben Uyeda of HomeMade Modern was asked to create a shoestore in an impossibly short deadline. He not only shows you every step of the process, from design to fabrication, but spells out the pricing and profit at the end:
I do wish more designer/builders were as transparent about this stuff. Great job, Ben!
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... $30/hour for labor seems low, as does the 120 hours.. in 20 days that's 6 hours a day combined for how ever many people might have been working. Expensing two xcarves into the project cost isn't how most business works - I would consider them a depreciable capital expense... not to say that I don't factor investments like that into proposals too, but it's weird to include that in with other direct project related costs. And I guess the conceptualization, research, prototyping, design work, project planning, procurement, and administration are all free - part of the "profit".
While it is interesting that he shared his pricing for the project, parts of the cost breakout don't make sense to me. $30 an hour for labor