How labor, equipment and materials determine real job margin.

A tree job’s profit is not what is left in the checking account at month end—it is the agreed pre-tax price minus the exact crew clock hours, equipment operating time and materials consumed on that job.

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Automated job costing is built into Crew ($199/month) and Established ($349/month).

Job costing ledger comparing agreed pre-tax revenue against crew labor, equipment time and material cost. — Every completed job compares agreed pre-tax revenue against recorded crew hours, equipment operating rates and consumed materials.Example data

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Agreed pre-tax job priceUSD

Crew members on the visit

On-site visit hours

Loaded hourly cost per crew member

Equipment package operating rate

Materials, chemical or dump feeUSD

Computed pre-tax job margin

64.6%

Healthy margin (≥ 50%)

Agreed pre-tax job revenue: $2,925
Crew labor (3 × 5.5 hrs = 16.5 person-hrs): −$594
Equipment operating cost (5.5 hrs): −$357.50
Materials & green-waste disposal: −$85
Total job cost: $1,036.50
Pre-tax net profit: $1,888.50

Payment fee impact on this invoice: Paying by Stripe ACH bank transfer ($5 fee, capped at $5.00) saves $80.13 compared to a standard credit card ($85.13).

Formula breakdown

How Treelocity computes pre-tax job margin on every visit

Each component is captured automatically as the crew runs the visit.

Component	How it is recorded in Treelocity	Impact on margin
Agreed pre-tax price	How it is recorded in TreelocityLocked from the signed estimate (including any optional items the client selected), excluding sales tax.	Impact on marginBaseline revenue (100%)
Employee labor cost	How it is recorded in TreelocityEach crew member’s clocked work duration (excluding unpaid breaks) multiplied by the hourly cost rate active when the work was performed.	Impact on marginSubtracted from pre-tax price
Equipment operating cost	How it is recorded in TreelocityAssigned visit duration for each truck, chipper, grinder or crane multiplied by that asset’s hourly cost rate.	Impact on marginSubtracted from pre-tax price
Material consumption cost	How it is recorded in TreelocityQuantity of cables, bolts or PHC products used on the job multiplied by the unit cost recorded when stock was received.	Impact on marginSubtracted from pre-tax price
Net job margin	How it is recorded in TreelocityAgreed pre-tax price minus (labor + equipment + materials), flagged automatically if any assigned person or asset is missing a rate.	Impact on marginReported in dollars and margin %

Why spreadsheets drift

Three costing pitfalls Treelocity eliminates

Sales tax mixed into revenue

Sales tax collected for the state is not your revenue. Treelocity calculates job margin strictly against the pre-tax agreed total.

Pay raises retroactively altering old jobs

When you update an employee’s hourly cost rate in Treelocity, past timesheets keep their original hourly cost rate so last quarter’s reports never shift.

Unpriced crew members or trucks hiding costs

If a new hire clocks into a visit before an hourly rate is entered on their profile, Treelocity surfaces an explicit missing-cost warning and lets you fill it in cleanly.

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Job costing and reportingSee the full costing and CSV reporting workflow.Read more Offline crew appHow crew clock-ins and breaks are captured in the field.Read more Scheduling and dispatchAssign crews and equipment to visits.Read more PricingCompare Crew ($199/mo) and Established ($349/mo).Read more

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