Labor Estimator

Tech Install · Tech Shop · Project Management · Project Engineering · CAD

Summary

Updates live as you change inputs below.
Tech Install
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Tech Shop
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Project Mgmt
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Project Eng.
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CAD
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Total Labor
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Rooms / Systems

Start here. Qty = # of identical rooms. Hours are per-room overhead on top of equipment.
Room / System Qty Inst /room Shop /room PM /room PE /room CAD /room Inst Shop PM PE CAD
Subtotal (hours) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Equipment Line Items

Per-unit hours × quantity. Assign to rooms above, or leave as Global/Shared for headend gear.
Item Room Qty Inst /ea Shop /ea PM /ea PE /ea CAD /ea Inst Shop PM PE CAD
Subtotal (hours) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Tip: click the Room cell to assign equipment to one or more rooms — its hours multiply by that room's quantity.

CAD / Drawings

Page-based drawing hours: pages × hrs/page × complexity. Toggle in Adjustments below to enable/disable.
Drawing / Sheet Pages Hrs /page Complexity CAD hrs
Subtotal (hours) 0.0

Adjustments & Overrides

Crew/rounding, percentage modes, minimums, flat extras, and CAD settings.

Tech Install — crew & rounding

Use 2+ when a display is >50" or there is a cable pull. Labor bills the same for 2 or more technicians.

On-site duration rounds up to a full day, then multiplied by crew size.

e.g. site prep, training, commissioning


Shop / PM / PE

Tech Shop

Project Management

Project Engineering


Room-count scaling (PM & PE, summed mode only)

Decay factor = max(0.10, 1 / (qty − 1)^0.7), qty ≤ 2 unaffected. Only applies in "summed" mode.


CAD / Drawings

Enables the CAD / Drawings table above. Uncheck to exclude page-based drawings.

Applied on top of all CAD hours for anticipated revisions.

Defaults: PM 25%, PE 20% of install. Minimums: Shop 4 h, PM 6 h, PE 6 h, CAD 8 h. Untoggle "Use % of Install" to sum Shop/PM/PE from per-line hours instead.