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One thing we see constantly with construction businesses: the company-wide margin looks acceptable, but when you pull it apart by project type, the picture changes completely.

Commercial new construction, residential remodel, government prevailing wage work, and service calls all carry fundamentally different cost structures. Averaging them into a single number produces a figure that flatters the high-margin work while masking what the lower-margin work is actually costing.

Healthy construction margins to benchmark against:
→ Specialty trade and service work: 40–55% gross margin
→ Larger lump-sum commercial projects: 20–35% gross margin
→ Net profit (healthy range): 8–15%

If your blended number sits in that range but you're not sure whether it's the right work type carrying it — pull gross margin by project type for the last two quarters. That's usually where the real story lives.

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