QuickBooks job costing, retainage tracking, and monthly P&L reports for Salt Lake City roofing contractors.
Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Front represent one of the fastest-growing roofing markets in the Mountain West. The corridor from Ogden through Provo — Davis County, Salt Lake County, Utah County — has seen explosive residential growth as tech sector migration and natural population growth create constant new housing demand. Re-roofing demand is high as the region's 1980s–1990s construction stock ages. Hail events in the Salt Lake Valley average 6–10 per year. Commercial roofing is active in the Silicon Slopes tech corridor (Lehi, American Fork, Draper). Snow load considerations and freeze-thaw cycles unique to the Wasatch front create specialized repair and maintenance demand.
Salt Lake City roofing contractors dealing with snow load damage — ice dams, membrane cracking from freeze-thaw cycles — often do high volumes of small repair jobs in the spring thaw season. Tracking 80–120 small repair jobs without job costing makes it impossible to know whether repair work is profitable enough to prioritize over re-roof bids.
Every Salt Lake City roofing job gets its own QuickBooks Project. Every invoice, bill, and expense tagged to the correct job. Monthly Project Profitability report shows gross margin on every completed job — so you know which work types in the Salt Lake City market are worth bidding more of.
Retainage held on Salt Lake City commercial jobs tracked in a dedicated QuickBooks account — visible on your balance sheet, aged monthly, flagged for collection when jobs complete. Most contractors we onboard have $40K–$120K in untracked retainage.
Two reports by the 10th of every month: company P&L and per-job profitability sorted by gross margin. Reports that drive real decisions, not just annual tax filing.
Every sub paid over $600 in Salt Lake City tracked year-round. Clean 1099 list ready January 31st — no scramble, no missing payments, no IRS exposure.
JobCostBooks works remotely inside your QuickBooks Online account — we serve Salt Lake City contractors across the full metro area.
All work is done remotely. Location doesn't limit service quality.
Fixed monthly pricing. QuickBooks cleanup included in onboarding.
If JobCostBooks doesn't find at least $10,000 in fixable profit leaks in your first 90 days, your first month is free. Uncollected retainage, job costing errors, miscategorized expenses — we've never had to honor it.
Salt Lake City contractors doing high volumes of small repair jobs (under $5,000) should batch them into QuickBooks Projects by neighborhood or route rather than creating individual Projects per job. This gives you a blended margin for repair work by area, without the overhead of setting up 120 separate QuickBooks Projects. Use the Project name to indicate the work date and area — Repairs-Draper-March2026 — so you can track seasonal trends.
$300–$700/month for a local SLC bookkeeper. JobCostBooks provides roofing-specialist bookkeeping — job costing, retainage tracking, monthly P&L — for $600–$1,800/month depending on revenue and crew size.
Yes. JobCostBooks operates inside your QuickBooks Online account with accountant-level access — the same as any local bookkeeper. All data stays in your QuickBooks account, which you own and control. We communicate via WhatsApp and email during US business hours.
Book the free 15-minute QuickBooks screen-share. If it's a fit, onboarding starts within 3–5 business days. QuickBooks cleanup and setup takes 10–14 business days. First clean month-end report within 30 days of starting.
Book a free 15-minute QuickBooks screen-share. We'll open your file, find the profit leaks, and tell you exactly what they're costing you.
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