Calculate What Excess Labor Is Costing Your Restaurants
Enter your own numbers, sales, labor cost, overtime, and the labor percentage you manage to. The calculator shows your current labor percentage, the cost above your target, what that annualizes to per location, and how much of your labor is overtime. No email required to see results. The math uses only your inputs, no invented industry benchmarks.
How the math works
Current labor % = total labor cost ÷ total sales × 100
Target labor cost = total sales × target labor %
Labor cost gap = max(0, total labor cost − target labor cost)
Annualized gap = gap × 52 (weekly), × 12 (monthly), or × 1 (annual)
Gap per location = annualized gap ÷ number of locations
Overtime is already inside your total labor cost, so the calculator does not add it again. That would double count. Overtime is shown separately as a percentage of labor so you can see how much of your labor spend is premium-rate.