Overtime vs. hire calculator
Cover it with overtime, or hire?
A gap that shows up every week is a structural one. This compares a year of premium hours against the cost of the heads that would close it, and finds the week the hire pays for itself.
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The formula
How this is calculated.
- 1Overtime = gap hours × hourly cost × (1 + premium) × 52
- 2Hiring = FTE needed × contracted hours × hourly cost × 52, plus ramp cost
- 3Break-even = ramp cost ÷ weekly saving
Before you trust it
What this model assumes.
- This is cost only. Overtime is flexible and reversible; a hire is neither, and sustained overtime has its own effect on attrition that no model here captures.
This runs entirely in your browser — nothing you type is sent to us. It is arithmetic on your own figures, not a benchmark or a recommendation.
In the platform
Where WFMPro does this for you.
These tools answer one question at a time, from numbers you type in. WFMPro runs the same maths continuously against your live data.
Run this on your own data with us.
A working session on your forecasts, schedules and shrinkage — and where WFMPro would take it from there.