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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
Labor Rates. To set a rate for labor costs, you need to compute the average hourly labor cost for all employees. The calculation is very similar to that used to figure the true hourly labor cost for a single employee. Add up the non-wage costs and annual wages for all employees to estimate your total annual labor cost.Next, add up the estimated labor hours for a year for all employees. Divide the estimated annual labor cost by the estimated number of labor hours to find the amount you need to allocate per labor hour.ivide the annual wages by the actual labor hours to find the wages per labor hour. In this example, $31,200 divided by 1,920 hours works out to $16.25 per hour. Related Reading: How to Calculate Fully Burdened Labor Costs.