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An industry average is 15%. Multiply your total of materials and labor by 15%. For the table, multiply $136.50 by 0.15.
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Finding the right price requires five separate calculations to determine costs for materials, labor, overhead, profit and selling expenses. You can calculate these by hand, or use your computer and a spreadsheet. Here’s how we would price the pictured accent table. The materials consist of the actual parts used to make the product and the cost of the wood. The table has 12 board feet of oak, at $3.25 a board foot, so the material comes in at about $39.00. Labor is calculated by the hour. Suppose you want to make $75,000 a year. If you take four weeks of vacation a year and work 40 hours a week, then you will work 1,920 hours a year. Divide 75,000 by 1,920, and you get $39.00 an hour. The table took 2.5 hours to make, so multiply $39.00 by 2.5. The labor cost for the table is $97.50. Add this to the materials cost ($39.00) for a total of $136.50. Overhead costs consists of the rental and utilities of your shop, tools, glue, nails, sandpaper and finishing materials. An industry average is 15%. Multiply your total of materials and labor by 15%. For the table, multiply $136.50 by 0.15. ($20.50) and add this amount to $136.50. The total cost for materials, labor, and overhead for the table is now $157.00. Profit is the amount added to cover business expansion. Add 10% of $157.00 ($15.70, but round up to $16.00), and you have a final price for the table of $173.00. This is the value of the finished table sitting on your workbench or the “workbench price”. If someone comes to your shop and picks up the table, you could charge them $173.00, because you haven’t incurred any selling costs. At your workbench price, all of your shop costs are covered. However, if they bought the same table in a store, it would cost them $400.00 because of selling expenses. Selling expenses consist of two calculations. The first, the cost to put the table in a store, amounts to 15% of the workbench price. This could be used to pay a sales rep, have a booth in a trade show or to advertise the table in a magazine or newspaper. Add 15% of $173.00 ($26.00) to $173.00, and you get the wholesale price of the table: $199.00. A store or gallery will mark up your wholesale price to cover their expenses. This is called the retail markup, usually 100%. To calculate the (suggested) retail price for the table, simply double your wholesale cost of $199.00 and you have a final price for the table, displayed in a store or gallery, of $398.00.
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Woodworking project can range from easy furniture-making and home carpentry to complicated wood carving and turning. Getting started with this hobby takes time to begin with. You need to learn how to measure, cut, attach and assemble. And you need to get the best set of tools or the right wood carving tools. There are a lot of design any woodworker can venture and learning into with the use of basic tools and simple materials like finding some scrap wood you can cut. It all depends on your desire to take it as an occasional hobby or turn it into a lucrative career. If you’re planning to make woodworking project in the long-term, our team advises you to invest in specific set of tools you need to use to ensure a continuous and efficient construction process.
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