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What does an hour of your crew actually cost?

It is never just the wage. Add what you pay on top of it and see the number you should be pricing from.

Your numbers

Hourly wage you pay

Payroll taxesFICA, FUTA, SUTA — employer share

Workers' compensationusually the biggest one in painting

General liability

Benefits, PTO & holidays

Starting values are illustrative, not industry figures. Put your own numbers in.

The truth

True cost per hour

$31.16

Wage you pay$25.00

Everything on top$6.16

Your labor burden24.7%

That percentage has a home.

Put it in Settings → Company → Labor in Painter's Log and every job's labor cost carries it — no spreadsheet, no re-doing this math per job. This covers what you pay on wages; if you also recover overhead through labor, add that on top.

That is a normal range once taxes and insurance are counted. Price from the true cost, not the wage.

Painter's Log applies this to every hour, automatically.

Set it once and every job's labor cost carries it — including overtime once you've set your rules, and including the days a crew splits across two job sites.

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This shows one hour. These show the whole job: