Your $65/hr Electrician
Actually Costs $112.
You bid the electrical package at $65/hour. But your electrician's true cost — with benefits, insurance, taxes, training, turnover replacement, and tool amortization — is $112/hour. You've been bleeding $47 on every hour of every worker since day one.
The Cost of Inaction
Every hidden burden dollar compounds across every worker, every hour, every day.
Burden rate estimated once, never updated
Your estimator assumed 35% burden at bid time. Insurance renewal added 12%. A new prevailing wage determination changed taxes. Training costs doubled after three incidents. Nobody recalculated. Every hour you book is wrong.
Turnover cost is completely invisible
When a journeyman quits, you lose the recruiting cost, onboarding hours, safety orientation, and three weeks of reduced productivity from the replacement. That cost never appears on any labor report.
Insurance premiums lag behind reality
Your EMR changed after that OSHA recordable. Workers comp premiums will increase at renewal. But your labor cost model still uses last year's rate, understating true cost by $4-8 per hour per worker.
Tool and equipment amortization ignored
Every electrician on site carries $3,000-$8,000 in personal and company-provided tools. Power tools wear out. Test equipment needs calibration. These costs are buried in equipment budgets, never allocated to labor.
The Return on POD
See every hidden dollar before it becomes an unrecoverable loss.
True Cost Calculator
POD computes fully-loaded cost per hour by trade, updating daily as actual benefits, insurance, tax, training, turnover, and tool costs flow in from field reports and payroll integration.
Burden Rate Dashboard
See exactly which burden components are growing and which are stable. Identify when insurance or training costs push your true rate above bid assumptions so you can act before margin erodes.
Forecast-to-Completion Tracker
Project remaining labor cost using actual burden rates, not bid-time estimates. POD forecasts total labor spend weekly, flagging cost codes where true burden creates overrun risk.
Burden Drift Alerts
When any burden component changes materially — insurance renewal, new tax rate, training spike, abnormal turnover — POD alerts the project team and recalculates the forecast automatically.
The Labor Cost Iceberg
What you see above the waterline is the base wage. Below it, six hidden cost layers silently push your true labor cost 72% higher than the rate you bid.
The Real Cost of Labor — What Your Spreadsheet Doesn't Show
POD calculates these automatically from daily field reports and payroll data.
Labor Cost Forecast
Labor Cost Forecast
PODLabor Burden Rate
Labor Burden Rate
Labor Cost Intelligence
True Cost Calculator
Fully-loaded labor cost per hour by trade, updated daily from actual payroll, benefits, insurance, and field data.
Burden Rate Dashboard
Breakdown of all burden components with trend lines showing which costs are growing and driving overruns.
Forecast-to-Completion Tracker
Remaining labor cost projection using actual burden rates, not bid assumptions. Weekly updates with variance alerts.
“We discovered our true labor burden was 72% above base rate — not the 35% we'd been estimating. POD's labor cost forecast caught a $1.8M variance before it became a $4M problem.”
— Director of Project Controls, Top-20 Electrical Contractor
Frequently Asked Questions
How Much Is Hidden Labor Burden Costing You?
At $47 per hour of hidden cost on every worker, a 50-person crew bleeds $18,800 per day you don't have visibility.