{ "name": "Markupbird Contractor Markup Margin Benchmark", "title": "Contractor Markup Margin Benchmark", "url": "https://markupbird.com/datasets/contractor-markup-margin-benchmark/", "csv": "https://markupbird.com/datasets/contractor-markup-margin-benchmark.csv", "markdown": "https://markupbird.com/datasets/contractor-markup-margin-benchmark/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-10-19", "license": "https://markupbird.com/terms", "headline": "The median published figure in the Contractor Markup Margin Benchmark is 25.30 percent across 2 sources' own pages (range 20.70 to 29.90 percent), read 12 October 2026.", "quotes": [ "The median published figure in the Contractor Markup Margin Benchmark is 25.30 percent across 2 sources' own pages (range 20.70 to 29.90 percent), read 12 October 2026.", "2 of the 15 named sources read in full publish a figure; 13 publish none, read 12 October 2026.", "Contractor Markup Margin Benchmark, trade remodeling: median 29.90 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.", "Contractor Markup Margin Benchmark, trade home: median 20.70 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.", "The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 25.30 percent across 2)." ], "citation": "\"Markupbird Contractor Markup Margin Benchmark\", updated 2026-10-19, https://markupbird.com/datasets/contractor-markup-margin-benchmark/.", "changed_since": { "since": "2026-09-26", "previous_median": 25.299999999999997, "delta": 0, "direction": "unchanged", "sentence": "The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 25.30 percent across 2)." }, "national": { "unit": "%", "n": 2, "median": 25.299999999999997, "min": 20.7, "max": 29.9, "p25": null, "p75": null, "mean": 25.3, "units": { "%": 2 }, "published_sources": 2, "named_sources": 15, "read_sources": 15, "not_published": 13, "published_share": 0.133 }, "by_axis": { "trade": { "remodeling": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 29.9, "min": 29.9, "max": 29.9, "p25": 29.9, "p75": 29.9, "mean": 29.9 } }, "home": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 20.7, "min": 20.7, "max": 20.7, "p25": 20.7, "p75": 20.7, "mean": 20.7 } } } }, "rows": [ { "source": "NAHB Eye on Housing: remodeler profit margins 2024", "url": "https://eyeonhousing.org/2026/04/remodelers-saw-profit-margin-gains-in-2024/", "figure": "29.9%", "value": 29.9, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "trade": "remodeling" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "quote": "The average gross margin in 2024 (29.9%) marked a return to gross profitability levels at par with 2018 (30.1%).", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "134e15d4a28449a62c0bbb43b7f9b8235dc292cb27adf36b296cc76f6c5ccf69" }, { "source": "NAHB: Cost of Doing Business study (builders)", "url": "https://www.nahb.org/news-and-economics/press-releases/2025/04/nahbs-new-study-provides-statistics-and-data-on-builder-financial-performance", "figure": "20.7%", "value": 20.7, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "trade": "home" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "quote": "The average gross profit margin increased from 18.2% in 2020 to 20.7% in 2023.", "source_class": "first-party-index", "text_sha256": "788a99415983263b46123e49e1203fb73779d387e0da0d65de115eb66f7d6125" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "IRS SOI corporation source book (by NAICS)", "url": "https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-corporation-source-book-us-total-and-sectors-listing", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "IRS SOI historical data tables", "url": "https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-historical-data-tables", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Census SUSB (firms by NAICS and size)", "url": "https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/susb.html", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Census Annual Business Survey", "url": "https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/abs.html", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Census construction spending (C30)", "url": "https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/c30index.html", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "BLS OOH: cost estimators", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/ooh/business-and-financial/cost-estimators.htm", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "BLS industry at a glance: construction", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag23.htm", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "BLS OES: roofing contractors (NAICS 238160)", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics4_238160.htm", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "BLS OES: plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472152.htm", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "BLS OES: electricians", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472111.htm", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "NAHB: home remodeling profit margin", "url": "https://www.nahb.org/blog/2026/04/home-remodeling-profit-margin", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Jobber Home Service Economic Reports", "url": "https://www.getjobber.com/home-service-reports/", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Jobber Home Service Trends Report", "url": "https://www.getjobber.com/home-service-trends-report/", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-corporation-source-book-us-total-and-sectors-listing", "label": "IRS SOI corporation source book (by NAICS)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-historical-data-tables", "label": "IRS SOI historical data tables", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/susb.html", "label": "Census SUSB (firms by NAICS and size)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/abs.html", "label": "Census Annual Business Survey", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/c30index.html", "label": "Census construction spending (C30)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/ooh/business-and-financial/cost-estimators.htm", "label": "BLS OOH: cost estimators", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag23.htm", "label": "BLS industry at a glance: construction", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics4_238160.htm", "label": "BLS OES: roofing contractors (NAICS 238160)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472152.htm", "label": "BLS OES: plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472111.htm", "label": "BLS OES: electricians", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.nahb.org/blog/2026/04/home-remodeling-profit-margin", "label": "NAHB: home remodeling profit margin", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.nahb.org/news-and-economics/press-releases/2025/04/nahbs-new-study-provides-statistics-and-data-on-builder-financial-performance", "label": "NAHB: Cost of Doing Business study (builders)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://eyeonhousing.org/2026/04/remodelers-saw-profit-margin-gains-in-2024/", "label": "NAHB Eye on Housing: remodeler profit margins 2024", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.getjobber.com/home-service-reports/", "label": "Jobber Home Service Economic Reports", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.getjobber.com/home-service-trends-report/", "label": "Jobber Home Service Trends Report", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 15 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 13 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 51 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): markup required to reach a target margin, derived per trade from PUBLISHED industry economics rather than from a rule of thumb: receipts against cost of goods sold by NAICS from the IRS corporation source book and Census SUSB give the implied gross margin of each trade; BLS occupational wages give the labour rate that goes into the cost side; NAHB's cost-of-doing-business studies give the builder and remodeler margins to check it against - and the derivation nobody publishes is the markup-to-margin table BY TRADE, with the gap between the trade's actual reported margin and the 'industry standard' markup contractors are told to use", "embed": "

25.30 percent

median published figure, Contractor Markup Margin Benchmark, across 2 sources, read 12 October 2026

Source: Markupbird Contractor Markup Margin Benchmark
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