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From the job site.

Practical writing on GPS time tracking, payroll accuracy, and running construction crews with less paperwork.

September 15, 2026

How to Price a Paver Patio So You Actually Make Money

Per-square-foot pricing is an output, not an input. Here is the bottom-up way to price a paver patio: spoil volume, compacted base, pavers with waste, burdened crew hours, disposal and overhead, with a worked 400 square foot example and the math for what happens when you price it at $30 a foot.

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September 14, 2026

California Construction Overtime, Explained

Daily overtime after 8, double time after 12, the seventh day, four 10s, prevailing wage jobs, the regular rate, and what the Labor Commissioner charges when a crew's hours are wrong.

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September 14, 2026

How to Bid a Concrete Job

The bid, line by line: scope, yardage, delivered concrete, the lines that are not the mud, crew labor at the loaded rate, overhead, margin, and the per-foot sanity check.

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September 8, 2026

How to Calculate Construction Job Costs (Before You Bid)

The bid-side math: labor hours at burdened rates, materials with waste, the direct lines everyone forgets, overhead, and the cost-to-price step, with one worked re-roof.

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September 7, 2026

Job Costing for Concrete Contractors

What belongs in the cost of a pour, the numbers that hide from concrete contractors specifically, and one worked flatwork job showing where the margin really went.

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September 5, 2026

How to Calculate Profit on a Construction Job (Step by Step)

The six-step math for what a construction job actually made: burdened labor, real material costs, overhead share, and true margin, with a worked example.

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September 4, 2026

Construction Job Costing: The Complete Guide

The whole system: five cost buckets, the labor-burden math most bids get wrong, markup versus margin, and one fully worked job so you can see where profit hides.

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July 14, 2026

GPS Time Tracking for Construction Crews: How It Actually Works

What GPS time tracking does on a real job site, what it fixes, and what a good system deliberately refuses to do.

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