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A fully burdened labor rate is the true hourly cost of an employee, including base wages plus all additional expenses required to keep that worker on the job. This includes payroll taxes, workers’ compensation insurance, health benefits, paid time off, training, equipment, and allocated overhead. While base wages might be

Construction productivity rates have barely moved in decades. While manufacturing output per labor hour has grown roughly threefold since the 1950s, construction productivity has largely stagnated; and in many advanced economies, such as Europe and the United States, it’s actually lower today than it was in the late 1960s. 

Timesheet errors in construction occur for a variety of reasons including rounding, estimating, manual re-entry, but the root cause runs deeper than that.

Understanding the cause of timesheet errors starts by assessing how time tracking is set up from day one. When data is collected after the fact, without verification,

AI time tracking is changing the way trade contractors manage labor data, and the shift is long overdue. 

For decades, trade contractors running crews across multiple jobsites have depended on manual timesheets to capture hours, assign cost codes, and process payroll. The result has been a predictable cycle of inaccurate

Construction payroll is, in theory, straightforward. Track hours. Apply the right rates. Cut the check. 

In practice, it’s one of the most operationally complex processes a trade contractor runs, and the complexity starts in the field.

The problem most construction businesses don’t say out loud: the data feeding their