Labor Efficiency Report

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Labor Efficiency turns your time-clock hours and payroll rates into a single at-a-glance picture of how much each part of the plant costs to run — and how productive it is. One screen answers "where is my labor money going, and is each department pulling its weight?"

Where: Reports → Production → Labor Report · Who: Admins only (it shows wages)

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What it answers

The Labor Efficiency report puts three things that normally live in separate places — hours worked, wages paid, and production & sales — side by side, broken down by department. In one view an owner or manager can see:

How many regular and overtime hours each employee logged, and in which department
What each department costs in wages
How many pieces each department produced, and its throughput per labor-hour (PPLH)
Each department's sales, and its Labor % — wages as a share of the sales it generated

Revenue basis — sales are measured on net revenue.

The report at a glance

Top — the employee × department grid. One row per employee. Each department is a pair of columns, Reg (regular) and OT (overtime) hours, so you can see exactly where a person spent their time. The far-right Total Pay column is that employee's wages across every job they worked.
Bottom — the department rollup (footer). Each metric below is literally the column total of the people above it — Wages, Pieces, Hours, PPLH, Dept Sales, and Labor % — plus a Total column for the whole store.

Example — a week for a small plant

Top: employee × department hours + pay

Employee	Rate	Dry Cleaning — Reg	Dry Cleaning — OT	Laundered Shirts — Reg	Laundered Shirts — OT	Wash & Fold — Reg	Overhead — Reg	Total Pay
Maria Lopez	$18.00	32.00	4.00					$684.00
James Carter	$16.00			38.00	2.00			$656.00
Ana Ruiz	$15.00					20.00	18.00	$570.00

Maria's Total Pay = 32 reg hrs × $18 + 4 OT hrs × $27 (1.5×) = $684.00.

Bottom: department rollup

	Dry Cleaning	Laundered Shirts	Wash & Fold	Overhead	Total
Wages	$684.00	$656.00	$300.00	$270.00	$1,910.00
Pieces	1,440	2,000	600	—	4,040
Hours	36.00	40.00	20.00	18.00	114.00
PPLH	40.0	50.0	30.0	—	35.4
Dept Sales	$6,200.00	$3,100.00	$1,800.00	$11,100.00*	$11,100.00
Labor %	11.0%	21.2%	16.7%	2.4%	17.2%

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In this example Laundered Shirts is the most productive line (50 pieces/hour) but also the most labor-heavy at 21.2% — worth a look. The plant overall spends 17.2 cents of labor for every sales dollar.

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