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Commercial / industrial / institutional general contractor

Multifamily / large residential general contractor

Specialty trade — equipment-heavy (concrete, earthwork, steel, roofing)

Specialty trade — labor-heavy (drywall, finish, paint, low-equipment)

Equipment rental / logistics / industrial services

Yes — current margin by job is on a report I look at weekly

Yes for the big ones, weaker on the small ones

Almost always within a couple of points — we review every job

Usually close, with the occasional surprise

Mixed — some land, some fade, we don’t always know why

Every change is priced, signed, and billed before the work is done

Most get captured; small ones sometimes slip

We catch the big ones, lose the small ones

We do the work and try to bill later; collection is hit-or-miss

We eat most changes to keep the relationship

Never — payroll is automatic, cash is well ahead of it

Rare — maybe once a year in a slow stretch

Most months I’m watching the bank balance Thursday night

Every payroll is a scramble; I’ve delayed or shorted a run

Retention is tracked separately, aged, and collected on a schedule

We know what’s out there and chase the big ones

We’ve written off retention before — collection just doesn’t happen

Yes — we run a rolling 13-week cash forecast

Yes for the biggest ones; we’d catch it

No — we’d find out when payroll is short

By the end of the month — usable but late

45–60 days later, or whenever the accountant gets to it

Quarterly or at year-end — I don’t really see monthly numbers