Question How do you base your pricing with custom reflective striping?

[Eveny Medeiros]

We've been doing wraps and signs for years now, more than 12yrs in the industry and about 4yrs for ourselves. We are getting custom reflective striping jobs for various fire & police depts. We are vendors for the builders of them so they go all over the US. Anyways, basing cost on sq ft & labor alone, there's not much meat on the bone. I've seen a few people on here who do fire & police work so was wondering what you base your cost on? We have a job now that I'm trying to quote and it's a little different than any before. We now have a template to cut each slat for all of the roll up doors so cutting, weeding, & taping each door on reflective that's printed and laminated. I have what all of our material and labor costs are but seems like nothing compared to what we think it should be. Any help?

 

[missytoe]

We build ambulances and provide the graphics. We base our quotes on the material with 40% markup (if we cut 30" vinyl, we charge them per sf including waste), plus $100/hr labor. If it's a big job, we include 2 hours of built in labor for design, printing, cutting and weeding.

 

[Eveny Medeiros]

Thanks for the info. It definitely helps.

 

[Eveny Medeiros]

We build ambulances and provide the graphics. We base our quotes on the material with 40% markup (if we cut 30" vinyl, we charge them per sf including waste), plus $100/hr labor. If it's a big job, we include 2 hours of built in labor for design, printing, cutting and weeding.

Thanks for the info. It definitely helps.