Labor Burden Calculator

Labor Burden Calculator

Labor burden adds employer-paid payroll taxes, benefits, workers' compensation or insurance, and paid leave to the base hourly wage. Enter your own percentages to turn a wage into a planning cost per productive hour.

Method and assumptions

Figur combines the costs, percentages, and payments you enter using direct arithmetic to show a job-price, labor-cost, or construction-invoice estimate. Everything is calculated locally in your browser.

• Overhead, contingency, labor burden, markup, and retainage percentages are applied in the exact order shown in the breakdown.
• When sales tax is requested, this planning version applies it only to the material amount you enter.
• The progress invoice uses earned work to date, calculates retainage on that total, and then subtracts all prior payments.
• Actual costs can change with site conditions, subcontractors, waste, scheduling, contract terms, and local rules.

This tool provides planning estimates, not a binding bid, invoice, legal advice, tax advice, or accounting advice. Confirm taxes, retainage, and contract requirements with the applicable documents and qualified professionals.

Sources and references

No external data source is required: this calculator applies the rates, costs, and contract terms you enter.

Frequently asked questions