A builder could see what one job paid a crew, but not what he had paid anybody over a quarter — because the numbers existed one job at a time and nobody was going to add up forty of them. Each job is costed once and its shares distributed, so every man's share of every job adds up to exactly what that job paid — whether the crew is on day rates, hourly + shared surplus, or a share of the labor price. Built for the way post-frame crews are paid, so the unit it reports in is the one you buy: the crew day. Admin only.
Also called: what is my labour costing · who works the most hours · team labour analytics · cost per day
Crews compared against the ladder they are actually paid on
Each crew's day rate is its own men's tiers plus its equipment allowance, projected across the days it worked, set beside what those jobs actually paid out, with the difference named. Above the day rate means the crew came in inside the days its jobs were figured for and kept the surplus. Below means the pool did not stretch to every day they were out.
You pay three crews off the same ladder and can't tell which one is actually costing you more per day.
A crew that keeps beating its days deserves to be seen doing it — and the owner needs to know which crew that is. Comparing each crew to its own ladder makes the gap read as surplus earned back, not as a mystery hourly rate.
Cost per crew day, because that is the unit you buy
Total labour divided by crew days — not by calendar days, and not by man-hours. Two crews out on the same Tuesday is two days of crew cost. Money over calendar days reads low every time more than one crew is working, and money over man-hours reads like an hourly wage nobody on this pay model is actually paid.
Money divided by calendar days reads low every time two crews work the same Tuesday, and you price the next job off a number that was never real.
An owner prices jobs in crew days, so that is the number he needs to see. Two crews out on one Tuesday is two days of crew cost, and dividing by man-hours would invent an hourly wage nobody on this pay is paid.
One bar per man for hours, with the money one hover away
Bars are hours and the colour is the crew, so who is carrying the work and which crew he belongs to arrive in the same glance. The tooltip holds the money: share of crew hours, earned, actual per day against his tier's rate, average day length. A chart of dollars per man on a screen in a room starts a conversation you did not want to have.
A dollar figure per man on a screen in the office starts the wrong conversation, and the hours that tell the real story are buried under it.
Who carries the work is something an owner should see at a glance — and a hard worker's hours shouldn't be hidden behind his pay. Bars are hours and colour is crew; the money is a hover away for the person who needs it.
It reconciles with every job's payout screen
Each job is costed once, through the same arithmetic the job's payout panel runs, and every man's share is read out of that single result. So the total on this page, the figure on the man's own record and the number on the job all agree — which is not automatic, and is the reason the arithmetic lives in one place.
The yearly report says one thing, the job screen another, and a man's own record a third.
When every screen agrees, nobody has to wonder which one is lying. Each job is costed once, through the same arithmetic as its payout panel, and every share is read out of that one result.
A framer's history survives him getting an account
Hours are folded through every identity a man has ever been known under before they are totalled. The day a crew member gains a login his identity changes underneath him — and without this, his year restarts at zero and his old field link stops working. Both keep working.
A framer gets an account in his third year and his record starts again at zero.
A man's years with you are his record — it should never reset because the office gave him a login. Hours are folded through every identity he has been known by before they are totalled, and his old field link keeps working.
Jobs it could not price are counted and said out loud
Jobs on day rates, hourly + shared surplus or a share of the labor price are all priced. Where a job has no crew, no tiers, or a crew paid some other way, it is left out and the count of unpriced jobs is shown beside the total. A labour total that silently covers two thirds of the work is more dangerous than no total, because you will act on it.
The labour total looks healthy because a third of the jobs never made it into it, and you find out at tax time.
An owner makes decisions off this number, so it has to say what it doesn't include. Naming the gap beside the total costs one line and saves a bad call.
- 1Open Team › Field Performance — or Accounting › Crew payouts, under the surplus ledger — for the whole company's labour.
- 2Headline figures: labour paid, cost per crew day, the difference against the day rates, hours logged.
- 3One bar per man for hours, coloured by crew, with the money one hover away.
- 4A crew table priced against the ladder those crews are actually paid on.
- 5Jobs on day rates, hourly + shared surplus or a share of the labor price are all priced by the same calculation as their payout screen.
- 6Jobs it could not price are counted and said out loud — never quietly left out.
A builder could see what one job paid a crew but not what he had paid anybody over a quarter, because the numbers existed one job at a time and nobody was going to add up forty of them. Hours and labour cost roll up across every man, every crew and the whole company, with each job costed once and its shares distributed — so every individual's share of every job adds up to exactly what that job paid. The crew performance view measures delivery against plan and says nothing about hours or money. This is the other half of the same question.
- Labour cost visible only per job, never in aggregate.
- Per-person shares that do not sum to what the job paid.
- Hours lost from totals when a person's id changed.
Hours by person
Comparing what people cost, name against name, starts a conversation in a room that rarely ends well — and usually is not the question anyway. Hours are the bars. The money is the follow-up, not the headline.
Cost by crew, against the day rates
A crew above its day rate finished inside the days its jobs were figured for and kept the surplus. Below means the pool did not stretch. The table reads: crew, day rate, days, at day rate, paid out, actual per day, difference.
Cost per crew day
Two crews out on the same Tuesday is two days of crew cost, not one. So labour money over calendar days reads artificially low every week more than one crew is working. This is the figure that means something week to week, whatever the headcount.
