---
title: costs.job | Doing Work API
description: Job costing for one job: contract, invoiced, collected and revenue against labor (approved and pending time at each entry's cost rate), materials at cost, 
url: https://doingwork.work/docs/reference/costs-job/
---

# costs.job

Job costing for one job: contract, invoiced, collected and revenue against labor (approved and pending time at each entry's cost rate), materials at cost, expenses and Doing Work fees, with profit and margin. Owner or office; needs seeing costs and prices.

|  |  |
|---|---|
| Who | Agents can call this |
| REST | `GET /v1/costs/job` |
| MCP tool | `costs_job` |
| Writes | no |
| Area | [Costs, expenses and reports](https://doingwork.work/docs/reference/#costs-expenses-and-reports) |

## When to use it

Job costing for one job: contract, invoiced, collected and revenue against labor (approved and pending time at each entry's cost rate), materials at cost, expenses and Doing Work fees, with profit and margin. Owner or office; needs seeing costs and prices.

## What to tell the owner

Tell them what you found in plain words. Don't read back raw fields.

## Input

| Field | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| `job_id` | string (uuid) | yes |

## Example

```http
GET https://doingwork.work/v1/costs/job?job_id=00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000
```

## Output

| Field | Type | Always there |
|---|---|---|
| `job_id` | string (uuid) | yes |
| `kind` | string | yes |
| `status` | string | yes |
| `summary` | ['string', 'null'] | yes |
| `customer_id` | ['string', 'null', ' ', '(', 'u', 'u', 'i', 'd', ')'] | yes |
| `occurred_at` | string (date-time) | yes |
| `currency` | string | yes |
| `contract_minor` | integer | yes |
| `invoiced_minor` | integer | yes |
| `tax_minor` | integer | yes |
| `draft_invoices_minor` | integer | yes |
| `refunded_minor` | integer | yes |
| `collected_minor` | integer | yes |
| `revenue_minor` | integer | yes |
| `labor_minutes` | integer | yes |
| `labor_pending_minutes` | integer | yes |
| `labor_cost_minor` | integer | yes |
| `labor_pending_cost_minor` | integer | yes |
| `uncosted_minutes` | integer | yes |
| `running_clocks` | integer | yes |
| `materials_cost_minor` | integer | yes |
| `materials_price_minor` | integer | yes |
| `uncosted_materials` | integer | yes |
| `expenses_minor` | integer | yes |
| `expenses_by_category` | object | yes |
| `fees_minor` | integer | yes |
| `cost_minor` | integer | yes |
| `profit_minor` | integer | yes |
| `margin` | ['number', 'null'] | yes |
| `unbilled_minor` | integer | yes |

```json
{
  "job_id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
  "kind": "...",
  "status": "...",
  "summary": "...",
  "customer_id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
  "occurred_at": "...",
  "currency": "...",
  "contract_minor": 50000,
  "invoiced_minor": 50000,
  "tax_minor": 50000,
  "draft_invoices_minor": 50000,
  "refunded_minor": 50000,
  "collected_minor": 50000,
  "revenue_minor": 50000,
  "labor_minutes": 1,
  "labor_pending_minutes": 1,
  "labor_cost_minor": 50000,
  "labor_pending_cost_minor": 50000,
  "uncosted_minutes": 1,
  "running_clocks": 1,
  "materials_cost_minor": 50000,
  "materials_price_minor": 50000,
  "uncosted_materials": 1,
  "expenses_minor": 50000,
  "expenses_by_category": {},
  "fees_minor": 50000,
  "cost_minor": 50000,
  "profit_minor": 50000,
  "margin": "...",
  "unbilled_minor": 50000
}
```

## Errors

| Code | Status | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| `invalid_input`, `invalid_token`, `rate_limited` |  | Can happen on any call. See [errors](https://doingwork.work/docs/errors/). |