GRADING: MASS VS FINE GRADING

No. Mass grading sells cubic yards per hour; fine grading sells tolerance held per acre. Track production, machines, and operators separately by grading type; a blended average overprices the bulk work and underprices the precision work at the same time.

Grading contractors at $1M to $5M net 5.5 percent on average, rising to 8 percent by $25M to $50M; the CFOS target at $1M to $5M is 10 percent. The trade's gap concentrates in blended mass/fine pricing, unclaimed rework at the acceptance gate, and a heavy spread carried through the off-season. Every net profit figure here is stated before taxes, the same basis CFMA reports on, so the two are directly comparable.

It trades stakes and rework for hardware, subscriptions, and model-prep labor, and those costs have to land somewhere: either allocated into machine hourly rates or carried in overhead on purpose. It also concentrates risk in the surface model; a bad model runs wrong grade at production speed.

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