Free vendor calculators tell you how much gravel. This one does the money math they skip — your fully-burdened labor rate, the true cost of the job, and the price to charge at your margin. Change any number and watch it update.
Finished surface area.
Pavers + base + sand + edging, all-in.
Finished area the whole crew installs per hour.
How many are on the job.
Base pay per worker, before burden.
Payroll tax + workers' comp + liability insurance.
Monthly overhead ÷ your billable hours.
Applied as margin — we show the markup too.
This job costs you $6,405. At a 25% margin, charge $8,540 — $27/sq ft, $2,135 profit.
An estimate to help you price — verify material quantities against your suppliers' coverage charts. The full product does the detailed, ICPI-checked takeoff automatically.
This is one job, done by hand. Every bid could work like this.
Hardscape Bid Builder does the full takeoff and this cost stack automatically, then exports a client-ready PDF with your logo.
Join the waitlistYour burdened labor rate is the base wage times one plus your burden percentage — the payroll taxes, workers' comp, and liability insurance you actually pay on top of the wage. Labor cost is the crew's burdened rate across the hours the job takes (finished area ÷ production rate). Add materials and overhead recovery — your monthly overhead spread across the hours you can bill — and you have the true cost to do the work.
The price applies your target as a margin, not a markup: price is cost divided by one minus the margin, so a 25% margin means profit is a quarter of the price, not a quarter of the cost. That difference is exactly where crews underprice — a 25% margin is a 33% markup — so the tool shows both. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.