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Overtime exposure calculator

What is overtime actually costing you a year?

Overtime is rarely a decision. It is what happens when nobody could see it coming while the rota was still editable. This prices it.

Your rota

11% — anything above 5% is usually a visibility problem rather than a demand problem.
60% — the portion that exists because it was invisible until payroll, not because the shift had to be covered.
Overtime premium per year
$0

Overtime hours / week0Across every location
Premium per week$0The extra half, not the base pay
Per location / year$0Average across your estate
Avoidable per year$0With names and costs before publishing

Why overtime is a visibility problem

Almost nobody schedules overtime on purpose. It accumulates: a person picks up a Tuesday at one location, covers a Saturday at another, and crosses the threshold in a week nobody was totalling. By the time it appears it has already been worked, and the only remaining question is how to pay it.

The fix is not a policy. It is seeing the individual, the store and the projected cost while the rota is still a draft. In a live twelve-store deployment the overtime radar caught a material, avoidable overrun in a single period, with each person and week named — and one location alone responsible for most of it.

The cheapest intervention in restaurant labour

Moving four hours from an employee at 44 hours to a colleague at 32 costs nothing and removes the premium entirely. It is only possible if you know, on Wednesday, that the first person is at 44.