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Should the next production hours come from overtime or another shift?
Compare loaded hourly cost, productivity, shift overhead and supervisor cost for the same output need.
Example scenario
Editable demonstration inputs, not verified industry benchmarks. Enable JavaScript to calculate your own scenario.
- Standard productive hours needed / month
- 800
- Standard loaded labor cost / hour
- $35
- Overtime pay premium
- 50 %
- Second-shift relative productivity
- 85 %
- Monthly second-shift fixed overhead
- $12,000
- Monthly second-shift supervisor cost
- $7,000
Second-shift savings versus overtime
Example result only, not a forecast or promise.
- Monthly overtime cost
- $42,000
- Monthly second-shift cost
- $51,941
- Second-shift staffed hours required
- 941.2
What to do with this result
Check available overtime, hiring lead time, fatigue and quality constraints; this comparison does not override labor or safety rules.
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Calculation method
Overtime cost = required productive hours × hourly cost × (1 + premium). Second shift = required hours / productivity × standard hourly cost + overhead + supervisor.
Assumptions and limitations
- Example inputs are editable scenarios, not Aryo results or independently verified industry benchmarks.
- Recovered capacity is not booked revenue or automatic cash savings. Validate the bottleneck, quality and demand before monetizing output.