Picture this: You just completed a $150,000 commercial renovation. Your crew worked 800 hours, you came in on schedule, and the client is thrilled. But when you run your job costing report, the numbers tell a different story, your estimated profit of $22,500 (15%) has shrunk to just $4,800 (3.2%). What happened? The culprit is often hiding in plain sight: inaccurate labor burden calculations . While you carefully tracked material costs and equipment rentals, your labor esti