Labor Burden Calculator

    • The cost of a new employee is not just the salary or wage that you pay.
    • To calculate the actual fully-loaded cost of a new employee, you have to look at all the other costs, including, but not limited to:
      • Employer paid taxes;
      • Employer-provided benefits;
      • Holidays;
      • Other paid time off (PTO)
    • This form will help remind you of the total costs associated with the new hire.
  • This form has two sections – Hourly and Salaried.

  • The two sections contain about the same information, but are calculated differently. 

  • The hourly calculations are generally used for production employees, and should be charged as direct project costs.

  • The salaried positions are generally used for administrative employees, and become a fixed cost for the business.

  • For hourly employees, use the “Bill Rate (before profit)” for estimating purposes, then add profit and overhead as part of the estimate.

  • If an hourly employee is assigned a specific task to be performed for a Client, bill that time using the “Bill Rate (including profit)” for invoicing the Client.

  • The information regarding the total cost of a salaried employee is used to calculate overhead and overhead allocation.