Roofing Labor Burden Calculator
Turn base wage plus taxes, workers' comp, insurance, benefits, and non-productive time into a fully-burdened hourly cost.
How do you calculate a roofer's fully-burdened labor cost?
Add every employer-paid cost tied to the employee (payroll taxes, workers' comp, insurance, benefits) as a percentage of wages, then divide the annual all-in cost by the productive hours actually worked after PTO, holidays, and non-billable time. That fully-burdened rate is what the employee really costs per productive hour — and what you should use in estimates.
Inputs
Fully-burdened cost
Per productive hour
$43.31 /hr
Burden adds 54.7% on top of base wage.
Wage + burden / paid hour
$39.48
Productive hours / yr
1,896
Annual employer cost
$82,118
How this calculator works
Step 1. Sum burden percentages (taxes + workers' comp + insurance + benefits) and multiply by wage to get burden cost per hour. Wage + burden = paid cost per hour.
Step 2. Multiply by paid hours (260 days × 8 hr) to get annual employer cost.
Step 3. Subtract PTO, holidays, and other non-productive days from 260 to get productive days. Multiply by 8 to get productive hours worked.
Step 4. Fully-burdened rate = annual cost ÷ productive hours. That's the number to use in estimates.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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