Roofing P&L Template

Once the structure matches your business, enter your monthly revenue and direct costs from your job cost reports or accounting software. The Job Cost Summary sheet is worth filling out project by project: enter each job's contract value, supplemental amounts, and actual costs, and the sheet calculates gross profit and margin per job automatically. This is the view that tells you whether individual jobs are performing to their estimated margins — information that disappears in the monthly total. Compare your actual materials cost per square against your bid assumptions for a quick read on estimating accuracy.

A roofing P&L needs to reflect how contracts actually vary. Insurance and storm damage jobs often carry different pricing dynamics than retail estimates — supplements can represent 10–20% of the contract value and are worth tracking as a separate revenue line. Commercial roofing has longer payment cycles, different bonding requirements, and a different labor mix than residential work. Repairs and maintenance have high margins but low average ticket sizes, so tracking them separately helps you see their contribution relative to larger replacement jobs. On the cost side, subcontractor costs can represent 20–40% of direct costs on some commercial jobs, and dump and disposal fees add up quickly on multi-layer tear-off projects — both deserve their own lines in the P&L.