What does it cost your desk to win a bid?
Enter your team, the period you’re reviewing, and what you won. Three minutes — your numbers come back benchmarked against The State of Estimation.
Build the estimating team
One row per estimator. Salary is base pay — burden is applied in the next step.
Tenure and cost basis
Payroll taxes, benefits and overhead — typically ~1.35× base salary.
Bids won in this period
Average won bid: $1.25M · Win rate: 20% (1 in 5)
That's everything we need. We'll price your desk against the benchmark and show you the gap.
RFP Pros is a community of roughly 14,000 estimating, preconstruction, and bidding professionals. ContraVault AI builds thetakeoff.ai, an AI-native estimation engine for industrial contractors that automates quantity takeoff and traces every quantity back to the drawing it came from. We published this benchmark so the industry has a shared, measurable picture of the estimating desk.
