True Labor Cost Calculator
Discover your labor burden. Calculate what an employee really costs per hour including taxes, insurance, and non-billable time.
What does your team really cost you?
Calculate the real hourly cost including taxes, insurance, and idle time.
Why base pay is only the tip of the iceberg
Bidding a project using your team’s hourly wage is the fastest path to losing profitability. Real labor cost (labor burden) includes factors we often overlook.
Labor burden
On top of the $25/hr you pay an employee, you must add employer taxes, workers’ comp, health insurance, and other benefits. This often adds another 20%–30% on top of base pay.
Non-billable time
Your employees cost you money for all 40 hours a week—but how many hours are truly productive on the job? Travel, loading the truck, meetings, and breaks reduce the hours you can bill the client.
True cost
When you divide total weekly cost by real productive work hours, you get the true hourly cost. This is the number you must use in estimates to protect your profit margin.
Have more than one employee?
Manage your whole crew, save your team’s data, and export reports to PDF or Excel.
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