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I'm really wondering why any contractor should make money on the
supplies they use to do a job. If you charge a proper hourly amount
(or fixed amount by job - whatever), IMO, you should not need to charge
any markup on supplies.

Put yourself in the contractor's position. You buy the material. You put
your money out, you spend the time to order it, receive it, store it, load
up the truck, haul it to the job site, unload the truck, he waits for you to
pay, meantime, he has sent off a check to his supplier, filled out any tax
forms needed, etc.

Should he charge you the same rate as the guy that supplied all the
material? What would YOU do?