Shift Work Calculators
Professional tools to explore key workforce scenarios and uncover opportunities for improvement
These calculators provide illustrative insights to help you estimate costs, coverage, and efficiency. For a complete analysis tailored to your operation, contact Shiftwork Solutions LLC — the experts in data-driven scheduling and workforce optimization.
Cost of Employee Turnover
Calculate the true cost of losing an employee, including recruitment, training, and productivity losses. Understanding this cost helps justify retention investments.
How Many Employees Do You Need?
Determine optimal staffing levels based on coverage requirements, shift patterns, and desired service levels. Avoid understaffing and overstaffing costs.
Income and Cost Calculator
Calculate employee income and company cost based on different shift schedules and overtime hours. Compare earnings across various work arrangements.
Cost of Shift Overlap
Analyze the financial impact of shift overlaps including handover time, duplicate coverage, and communication costs. Optimize shift transitions.
Cost of Employee Turnover Calculator
Calculate the total cost of replacing an employee in your organization.
Our Assumptions:
- Training is a straight-line function: if it takes 10 weeks to learn a job, after 3 weeks they are 30% trained
- Vacant jobs must be filled using overtime to avoid expensive order fulfillment failures
- As employees become more trained, less overtime is needed (also straight-line): if 60% trained, only 40% overtime coverage needed
- Final cost = Turnover Rate × Total Employees × Cost Per Single Turnover
Total Annual Turnover Cost
How Many Employees Do You Need?
Calculate optimal staffing levels for your operation.
Our Assumptions:
- You need the same number of employees for each of the hours you are operating
- Vacation, holidays and absenteeism result in an average absentee rate of 10%
- The absenteeism rate is the same for all hours of required coverage
Recommended Staffing Level
Income and Cost Calculator
Calculate employee income and company cost based on different shift schedules.
Our Assumptions:
- All overtime is paid at time and one-half
- Burden rate for scheduled hours is 45%
- Burden rate for overtime hours is 15%
- Annual calculations based on 52 weeks per year
Annual Income and Company Cost
Cost of Shift Overlap Calculator
Calculate the financial impact of shift overlaps.
Our Assumptions:
- All overlap is paid at the overtime rate
- The burden rate on overtime is 15%
- Overlap occurs at every shift change
- Annual calculation based on schedule type