{"id":8571,"date":"2022-07-19T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beebole.com\/blog\/?p=8571"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:22:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:22:59","slug":"how-to-calculate-project-profitability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beebole.com\/blog\/how-to-calculate-project-profitability","title":{"rendered":"How to calculate project profitability using time tracking data: Everything you need to know [Excel tutorial]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you bill clients based on the time you spend, here\u2019s a pop quiz: which projects make the most money? Or even more importantly: which projects aren\u2019t <\/em>profitable? If you don\u2019t know the answer to these questions, it\u2019s time to start thinking about project profitability<\/strong>, a measurement of revenue billed versus time and cost expended.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Knowing whether a project actually makes money takes more than a gut check. It takes a repeatable way to compare what you billed against what it cost to deliver. This guide walks through building that analysis by hand in Excel, plus the faster path to the same numbers.<\/p>\n

Here’s what this article covers:<\/p>\n