Parts & Material Markup Calculator

Price a part or material line item: enter cost and a markup, see the selling price, the dollar profit, and the real margin. Flat, tiered, or target-margin.

Pricing mode

Flat markup Tiered Target margin

Part cost

Per-unit cost — what you pay your supplier.

Markup

Markup is a percent of cost. We show the margin too.

Tiered markup table

Cheaper parts usually carry a higher markup. Edit these to match your shop — leave the last row's "Cost up to" blank for "and above".

Cost up to ($)	Markup %	Actions

Target margin

Margin is a percent of price. We'll solve the markup.

Tax & quantity (optional)

Sales-tax rate

Optional local sales-tax rate. Estimate only — not a tax filing.

Quantity

Multiplies the per-unit price into a line total.

Selling price (per unit)

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Cost (per unit): —
Gross profit (per unit): —
Margin A percent of the selling price.: —
Effective markup A percent of cost.: —
Tax amount: —
Line total: —

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How this is calculated

Selling price = cost × (1 + markup). Margin is the share of that price you keep: margin = markup ÷ (1 + markup). They are not the same number — a 50% markup is only a 33.3% margin — which is the single most common pricing mistake in the trades, so we always show both.

flat          markup% (on cost) → margin = markup / (1 + markup)
tiered        markup% looked up from the cost bracket you set
target margin markup = margin / (1 − margin)   (solves the markup)

sell      = cost × (1 + markup)
profit    = sell − cost
tax       = sell × tax%          (optional, local-rate aid only)
line total= (sell × qty) + tax × qty

Example: a part that costs $40 at a 50% markup sells for $60 — a $20 profit and a 33.3% margin. The tiered table lets cheaper parts carry a higher markup (handling and restock effort); the cost you enter falls into the first bracket whose "cost up to" is at least your cost.

The tier defaults are editable starting points, not prescribed rates. The optional tax line is a local-rate arithmetic aid — it is not a tax filing or compliance record.

The cost you start from is a cost of goods sold figure, and the two percentages this page reports side by side are set out in markup vs margin. To run the conversion on its own, without a part in front of you, use the markup versus margin converter.

Parts markup rarely travels alone. It is one row inside a whole quote built up from cost, and the trades that resell the most hardware have it built in already: the HVAC job pricing calculator and the plumbing job pricing calculator both carry a per-row parts markup of their own.

How we choose and check our formulas