Construction business
Construction crew daily cost
Budget one crew workday from supplied staffing hours, all-in labor rates and entered daily job expenses.
Your inputs
Complete the fields for your selected method. Zero means intentionally zero, not unknown. Currency selection labels amounts; it does not convert exchange rates.
How this calculation works
crew-day cost = sum(people × paid hours/person × all-in hourly cost) + equipment + supervision + daily overhead
For residential or commercial company costing. Use supplied job records, measured labor and quoted total expenses. No material takeoff, shopping list, supplier sourcing, code interpretation, engineering design or legal entitlement is provided. Use all-in rates supplied from your payroll records or cost budget; no tax or overtime rule is calculated. Do not duplicate supervision in both crew rows and the additional supervision field. Costing a day does not determine a safe staffing level or schedule.
What information do I need?
Use records for the same job, equipment or accounting period. Only the fields for your selected entry method are required. An unknown amount is not zero.
Input definitions and where to find them
- Roles on this workday: Crew timesheet/supplied hours, owner rates and allocated daily costs. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Role name: Crew timesheet/supplied hours, owner rates and allocated daily costs. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- People in this role (people): Crew timesheet/supplied hours, owner rates and allocated daily costs. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Paid hours per person that day (hours/day): Crew timesheet/supplied hours, owner rates and allocated daily costs. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Supplied all-in cost per paid person-hour (selected currency): Crew timesheet/supplied hours, owner rates and allocated daily costs. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Equipment expense allocated to this day (selected currency): Crew timesheet/supplied hours, owner rates and allocated daily costs. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Additional supervision cost not in crew rows (selected currency): Crew timesheet/supplied hours, owner rates and allocated daily costs. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Other daily job overhead (selected currency): Crew timesheet/supplied hours, owner rates and allocated daily costs. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
Use the Where to find this value controls beside the inputs for available work-it-out helpers. Estimates remain your assumptions; a helper does not verify the source figures.
Worked example
Example amounts use US dollars (USD).
Example answer: Entered full crew-day cost is $1,050.00 for the illustrative inputs below.
Example inputs
- Roles on this workday
- Role name: Crew
- People in this role: 3 people
- Paid hours per person that day: 8.00 hours/day
- Supplied all-in cost per paid person-hour: $30.00
- Equipment expense allocated to this day: $150.00
- Additional supervision cost not in crew rows: $100.00
- Other daily job overhead: $80.00
- Entered full crew-day cost
- $1,050.00
- Total paid crew person-hours
- 24.00 person-hours
- Crew-day cost per paid person-hour
- $43.75
These illustrative values are not recommended rates or industry averages. Replace every example input with your own figures.
Use the result well
Budget a defined residential/commercial crewday.
Keep inputs on the same scope and time basis. Calculations retain precision internally; displayed values generally round to two decimal places, with extra precision for very small values and whole-unit rounding where required. Economic comparisons describe your supplied assumptions and do not guarantee future results.
This tool provides business arithmetic. It does not approve engineering designs, establish legal or tax treatment, select equipment or certify safe operating conditions.