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Effective Labor Rate Effective Labor Rate â This basically is your total labor sales, or individual techâs labor sales, divided by the billed hours by the team or individual tech. For example, your shop labor rate is $80, Technician A bills 36 hours and generates $2,380 in labor sales. Take the $2,380 in labor sales, then divide by the 36 hours and you get $66.11 as an effective labor rate. You col-lected 82 percent of your door rate. At 100 percent of your door rate, the total tech labor sales should have been $2,880. I know some of you are saying that you have heard a different definition for effec-tive labor rate. That might be true, but we
Predetermined overhead rate is estimated overhead divided by estimated activity. The example states that estimated activity is 200,000 direct labor hours. $1,250,000 / 200,000 direct labor hours = $6.25 per direct labor hour (donât forget to label your numbers) Applying the predetermined overhead rate to jobs. Alright, so we have a rate. Now what? We must apply the rate to our jobs. The rate from our example above is $6.25 per direct labor hour. How do we apply this to our jobs? Based on the direct labor hours worked on the job. For each direct labor hour worked, we will add $6.25 of overhead to the job. Applied overhead is overhead added to a job by taking the predetermined overhead rate multiplied by the actual activity. Applied overhead is added to direct materials and direct labor to calculate total job cost. Total Job Cost = Direct Materials + Direct Labor + Applied Overhead. Every time a job is completed, overhead is applied to the job. The total cost of all the jobs completed over the course of the year is cost of goods sold. Example #2