Direct labor - Accubid Tutorial

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at the Direct Labor screen. But before we do, take a look in the bottom right hand corner here, at the bottom of Total Hours, you'll see that the total hours for the Extension screen are 263.15. Remember, we're going to come back to that. Click on the Direct Labor tab and you'll see here the different types of labor. Now remember direct labor is the labor that's used to install all the equipment that's on the Extension screen. It's not the extra labor needed on a job, like supervision. It's the direct labor, only associated with the material that you're installing. Here in the Direct Labor screen I've got a few different types of labor, a few different classifications. I have a foreman, I have a journeyman, and I have an apprentice. You'll notice that under the Crew column, Accubid allows me to set up the ideal crew size that I think I'm going to need and then it calculates the hours out. Let's say, for instance, I thought I would use one foreman, two journeymen, and one apprentice. Based on percentages, it takes the hours from the total Direct Hours from the Extension screen and calculates them all out. 65, 131 and 65. Look down at the bottom, I've got 263.16. That's pretty much what came over from the Extension screen. Now, if I do wanted to add maybe two more journeymen and make this a four instead, you'll notice that the foreman and apprentice were affected. There's less hours for them and more for the journeymen. These calculations are constantly happening. However, if for some reason you wanted to edit the actual hours for a particular classification, which you can do, you can say, I want 100 hours for the foreman. What will happen? Accubid will assess the rest of the crew based on the numbers that you have and split them up proportionally. So I still have 263.15 hours. Now let's be careful, watch this. If I adjusted the hours to 100 here for journeymen and zero for apprentice, this Direct Labor screen will allow me to set the hours however I want them, including not calculating or taking into consideration the total number of Direct Labor hours from the Extension screen. So you have to be careful that you don't override the calculations, unless you absolutely are sure that's what you want to do. Let's go back to a normal calculation. No matter what we put in for crew size it's always going to base it on 263 hours, which is what we want. I like that right here. So what are these other columns mean? We know what Hours are, we know what Rate is. You can change the Rate if you want for this particular job, or even for your global default job, if you like. A foreman in my area may get $40 an hour. You'll see that the subtotal is uneditable. To the right of that is the Burden. The Burden is basically taxes and fees that I have to pay for that particular classification. Fringe benefits, they may be as much as $20, maybe even more. Those are benefits that are going to that particular individual or classification. To the right of that, the Burden Total and Fringe Totals are just calculations of the hours multiplied by the percentage or the dollar figure, then everything's total out after that. Let's take a look at the journeymen. I have two of them at 131 hours times $35 for a Rate of $4,605.30. Now, if the Burden percentage is 30% for $35, my total of 30% times 35 times 131 should be roughly $1,381.59. The same calculation goes for the fringes. $19 times 131 should come out to 2,500 with a total coming all the way to the right of $8,486 in total journeymen costs. It also shows me the Full Rate, that's the full rate per hour for the journeymen, $64.50 cents. Now I could change that. Let's say, for instance, fringes have gone up this year. I want to make them $21. Watch the Full Rate on the right, goes up a little bit. You can edit cells that are in white. You can not edit cells that are in yellow, and you should only do this if your classification costs are changing for this particular job. If you want to change the cost of your different classifications for your whole company, you should do that in your global default job. One more thing I want to do here. Let's add one more classification. What if our journeymen need to work overtime? I can put this in a rate of $48. Still have a Burden of 30% and Fringes may be a little bit higher. We'll call them 24. Well, nothing's calculating out, because I haven't assessed any hours here, but maybe I know that I'm going to put in 16 hours of overtime. Not only will the Full Rate calculate, but it'll keep this all within the 263 hours. See that, it just stole from these other hours up here, the foreman, journeyman, and apprentice straight time hours. Set these up however they work well for your company. The best thing for you to do is to go into your global default job and set these up, but you always have the opportunity and availability to change them per estimate, like I did right here. That's the basics of the Direct Labor tab.