# Production rate

A term used when buying painting.

Square feet a crew covers in an hour, which is what a bid is actually built on.

Every painting estimate is this number times a labor rate, so a shop bidding off a rate it no longer achieves is losing money on work it won. It also travels badly between job types: a repaint with furniture in the room and a new-construction shell are different rates and a bid sheet that uses one for both is quietly wrong half the time. Ask for estimated against actual hours on the last twenty jobs; the gap is the whole finding.

Part of: Buying a Painting Business (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-painting-business)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-painting-business/terms/production-rate
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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