Painting Contractor Profit Tracker Excel for your painting contractor business — jobs and clients, job log, expenses, and a monthly P and L dashboard. Know what every job actually pays — and whether the month actually…
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Painting Contractor Profit Tracker Excel for your painting contractor business — jobs and clients, job log, expenses, and a monthly P and L dashboard. Know what every job actually pays — and whether the month actually made money. Built for painting contractor owners and small trade crews who need to know, job by job and hour by hour, what the quoted price is really worth per hour — without accounting software. If a job is eating hours at a discount rate, this workbook shows it before the next quote.
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Clients and Jobs — client, job or service, quoted price, hours, effective hourly rate, add-on revenue, total job revenue, and materials cost for every job. Change a price and the rate and totals update.
Job Log — date, client, task, hours, hourly rate, amount, and whether it was billable for every job. Main-job rates are pulled from sheet 1 by formula; add-on jobs are priced per job.
Expenses — fuel, vehicle, tools, insurance, marketing, office, and other overhead, with a monthly cost for each.
Monthly P and L — revenue, materials, fuel, vehicle, tools, insurance, marketing, office and other expenses by month, Jan-Dec, with net profit and margin. Revenue is a formula from the Job Log; materials is a formula from sheet 1.
Dashboard — total revenue, jobs, hours, billable vs non-billable hours, capacity used, average rate, materials, expenses, net profit and margin, best and weakest jobs, revenue by job, costs by category, and hours by job.
Cover and How to Use — start here. Yellow cells are the only ones you edit.
Try the headline numbers for a typical month. The full template does this job by job with a monthly P&L and dashboard.
Frequently asked questions
What does the Painting Contractor Profit Tracker track?
The Painting Contractor Profit Tracker tracks Clients and Jobs; Job Log; Expenses; Monthly P and L; Dashboard.
What do the example numbers show?
The included example shows: 12 jobs; quoted prices 19,570; add-on revenue 975; total revenue 20,545; materials 4,780.
Does it work in Excel and Google Sheets?
Yes. The workbook works in Microsoft Excel and in Google Sheets (upload the .xlsx file to Google Drive to open it in Sheets). It is an instant digital download from Etsy — no physical item is shipped.
This template is a bookkeeping and planning tool only — not tax, legal, or CPA advice. Built by an accountant: B.S. Accountancy, ASU W. P. Carey.
VickeryFinance — “Know your numbers — without the accounting software.”
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