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Labor Burden Calculator

Labor Burden Calculator

Estimate the real hourly cost of an employee after paid time off, payroll taxes, insurance, and benefits. This helps you price jobs off true labor cost instead of just hourly wage.

Employee Pay Inputs

Enter the employee's regular working hours and pay rates. Overtime is optional.

Regular productive field hours for the year, excluding PTO, holidays, and sick time.
The employee's normal hourly wage before any taxes, burden, or benefits.
Additional productive overtime hours expected during the year. Leave at 0 if not used.
Actual overtime pay rate. If you pay time-and-a-half, enter that full rate.

Non-Working Wages

These hours are paid, but not billable. They still raise your real labor cost.

Paid company holidays for the year.
Paid vacation or PTO hours.
Paid sick time expected for the year.

Payroll Taxes & Insurance

Social Security (6.2%) and Medicare (1.45%) are calculated automatically. Enter the rest as percentages of payroll.

Your workers' comp rate as a percentage of payroll for this employee or class code.
Employer SUI rate as a percentage of payroll.
General liability or payroll-related insurance burden as a percentage of payroll.
Health insurance, retirement match, stipends, or other annual benefits.

Other Annual Labor Costs

Add any other annual employee-related costs you want included in burden.

Truck allowance, fuel, maintenance, small tools, or labor-related overhead.
Any extra annual labor-related cost not included above.

Your Labor Burden Result

This shows what the employee really costs per productive hour after wages, paid but non-billable time, taxes, insurance, and benefits.

Base hourly wage
$0.00
Annual total labor cost
$0.00
Burden amount per hour
$0.00
Burden percentage
0%
Fully burdened labor rate
$0.00
This estimate is meant to help with pricing and job costing decisions. It does not replace payroll, legal, or tax advice.
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