Commercial interiors subcontractors — drywall, ceilings, flooring, and finishes on tenant improvement and commercial buildout projects — carry overhead driven by trade coordination complexity and the scheduling precision that occupied building work requires.
These benchmarks are drawn from SPM's work with commercial interiors contractors and industry data. Calculate your actual overhead rate — total G&A expenses divided by total revenue for the trailing 12 months — and compare to your revenue band below.
How to use this data: If you're above the top of the range, specific categories need review. If you're below the bottom, you may be underinvesting in systems and staff. Use the benchmark as a target range, not a single number.
Trade note for Interiors Contractors: Interiors contractors working in occupied buildings — hospitals, schools, retail, office — carry higher overhead than new construction interiors contractors. Infection control protocols, after-hours work premiums, and noise restriction compliance create overhead that empty-building interiors work doesn't require.
ICRA protocols, dust barrier installation, after-hours coordination, and noise restriction compliance for occupied building work are direct job costs. When these costs get coded to overhead, occupied building jobs look more profitable than they are.
TI projects requiring coordination between drywall, ceiling, flooring, and millwork subcontractors — all sequenced through one interiors contractor — carry coordination overhead that single-trade interiors contractors don't have.
Tenant improvement punch lists are detailed and demanding. The labor cost of responding to punch list items, coordinating close-out documentation, and managing warranty callbacks on TI projects is often absorbed without being tracked.
ICRA protocol labor, dust barrier material, and after-hours coordination costs for specific occupied building projects are coded to those jobs in ControlQore — not to overhead. These are project-specific direct costs.
Multi-trade coordination labor for complex TI projects is tracked at the job level in ControlQore — revealing which projects carry the highest coordination burden and supporting accurate overhead pricing on complex multi-trade interiors scopes.
Punch list response labor and warranty callback costs are tracked by job — revealing which project types and which GC relationships generate above-average close-out overhead. This data improves future bid pricing and client relationship decisions.
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