Workforce capacity, bottlenecks, and the next hiring move.
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Welcome to LaborLogic
Know your real fabrication cost per square foot.
Free, no signup. Track every productive hour spent making a countertop and see your true labor cost per SF — plus when overtime, hiring, or a shift change moves the line. Pick a sample shop or enter your own crew.
Quick basics so the math reflects your actual schedule.
If you currently run a 4×10 schedule, set hours = 10 and days = 4. The math reads time the way your crew actually works.
Enter what you actually produce in a typical week, not what you wish you produced. The cost-per-SF math depends on the real number coming out the door.
Headcount and hourly pay rate per role. Hourly rate (not loaded) — we’ll add the burden multiplier in the next step.
RoleHeadcount$ / hour
Receiving / material handling
Programming / CAD-CAM
Saw operation
CNC routing
Inline polishing
Hand fabrication
Quality control / install prep
Floaters / cross-trained
Burden multiplier captures payroll taxes, workers’ comp, health, and benefits on top of the hourly rate. 1.30 is typical (30% on top); shops with rich benefits run 1.40–1.50. OT is paid at 1.5× the loaded rate — we apply that automatically.
Know your fabrication cost per square foot. Track every hour spent producing a countertop — from receiving through QC — and see when overtime, hiring, or a shift change moves the cost line.
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Reading your labor picture…
Enter your crew to see whether to add overtime, hire, or add a shift.
Recommended next move
Cost per SF
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loaded labor
Weekly labor
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total spend
Cost per SF
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Weekly labor cost
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incl. OT & burden
SF produced / wk
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typical week
Total man hours
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reg + OT / week
OT cost
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% of total
Recommended move
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Best-in-class benchmark
Top performers hit < $2/SF labor cost with the right machinery, workflow, and automation.—
Overtime is costing you
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Simple solution
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Reading your crew
Enter your team to see whether you’re overstaffed, balanced, or stretched.
The dashboard will show department-level utilization, the tightest constraint, and whether overtime, hiring, or a shift change is the right next move.
Cost breakdown by role · where the labor dollars go
Total weekly labor cost
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100%
The labor decision · overtime, hire, or add a shift
Run the numbers above to see your three paths forward.
Considering a second shift? The recommendation above only checks labor. If your saws and CNCs are already near capacity on first shift, a swing shift adds payroll without adding throughput — you’ll just shift the bottleneck. Compass bridges this with your ShopCapacity data to validate the call automatically — flagging when machines are the real constraint. Get notified at launch →
Before you hire, look at the crew you have. Higher throughput often comes from a smart bonus structure — tiered payouts (individual + team) tied to quality KPIs like rework rate, callbacks, and on-time installs, paired with leadership that shows up first and sets the standard, not just manages from an office. Upleveled Performance & Bonus Calculator models the bonus-vs-quality math so the team gets paid for real output, not hours — and so production gains don’t come at the cost of remakes. Get notified at launch →
Try a change
Pick a scenario to see what changes.
Where the leverage is this month
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Talk it through
Five free minutes with a ULI advisor.
Bring this report to a call. One of our advisors will walk through your labor picture with you and pressure-test whether overtime, hiring, or a shift change is the right move. No pitch, no commitment — just five minutes with someone who’s built the same crew.
LaborLogic is a planning tool. Real labor decisions involve people, culture, and context this tool cannot see. Use it to surface the question, not to answer it without judgment.