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Labor burden

Labor burden

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Oct 12, 2026

Tom ReberHOST
4:08
You've got payroll taxes, workers' comp, other costs that come with employing somebody.
Tom ReberHOST
4:14
For this example, we'll use a 1.4 labor burden.
Tom ReberHOST
4:18
Okay? Yours might be different.
Tom ReberHOST
4:20
All right? That takes a $30 an hour wage and puts the actual burden labor cost at about 42 an hour.
Tom ReberHOST
4:26
What we're saying with the 1.4 is about 40% of the hourly wage you're gonna have to pay as a company, all right, in labor burden.
Tom ReberHOST
4:34
Now, we've got the two pieces we're looking for.
Tom ReberHOST
4:37
We've allocated about 50 bucks of overhead to each billable hour, and the field labor costs, uh, cost us about 42 bucks an hour.
April EdwardsHOST
10:42
Um, such a good thing.
April EdwardsHOST
10:45
So what about labor? What's, uh, tell me more about, like, a labor burden when it comes to pricing.
April EdwardsHOST
10:52
What does that really include, and do you find that that's really far off? Um-
Brad HuebnerGUEST
10:57
Oh, almost always.
April EdwardsHOST
10:59
Okay.
Brad HuebnerGUEST
10:59
It is.
Brad HuebnerGUEST
11:00
And I didn't, I don't, I didn't tell you guys, we were [laughs] before we end talking about links, I have a labor burden worksheet that actually will-
April EdwardsHOST
11:05
Oh

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