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Pricing construction work in Florida

Sales tax, the county surtax sitting on top of it, and a hurricane season that shortens the working year all belong inside a Florida price. These guides cover what has to be in the number, and where the work is starting so there is something to put a number on.

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How to run the businessMiami-Dade and Orlando permitsFilter this week's Miami-Dade County and Orlando building permits to your trade and value band, read a permit line the way an estimator does, and make a call that names the permit number.How to run the businessGet on Florida GC bid listsA general contractor bid list is a spreadsheet on one estimator machine, and getting added is a four minute clerical act that happens the moment somebody has a complete folder on you. Here is the folder.How to run the businessThe Florida handyman lineFlorida has no handyman license to get. Two tests decide whether a job is yours without one: whether it needs a permit, then whether the aggregate price clears $2,500. Plus the statute that puts painting, flooring and handyman services outside licensing entirely.How to run the businessLLC or sole proprietor in FloridaEverywhere else this is a tax question you can leave open. In Florida construction it is a workers compensation question, it is settled the day you file, and one of the two answers cannot be bought back later.How to run the businessFlorida Building Code 9th EditionApplications accepted before the switchover stay under the 8th Edition for the life of the permit, and applications after it do not. That makes the date you walk into the building department a pricing decision on every job that straddles it.How to run the businessPrice a Florida jobPrice a Florida job off a cost floor that already carries the 6% state tax and the delivery county's 2026 surtax, with the $5,000 single item cap applied and a markup that produces the margin you meant to keep.How to run the businessFlorida roofing licenseThe certified roofing contractor license is what makes a storm month worth working: one credential, all 67 counties, and the s.489.147 rules that scare everyone else become the moat around the roofers who read them.

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Hourly rate calculatorOverhead, billable days and the wage you want in. The hourly rate that pays for all three.Free, no signup.Markup and margin calculatorAdd twenty percent to your costs and you keep sixteen point seven. Enter one job and see the price, the profit, both percentages, and what the mix-up is worth in dollars.Free, no signup.
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