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Does an apprentice add productive capacity after supervision?
Model useful apprentice hours, experienced-worker supervision and training cost.
Example scenario
Editable demonstration inputs, not verified industry benchmarks. Enable JavaScript to calculate your own scenario.
- Annual paid apprentice hours
- 1,800
- Apprentice productive-equivalent share
- 50 %
- Contribution / productive-equivalent hour
- $65
- Experienced technician hours spent supervising
- 250
- Contribution displaced / supervisor hour
- $90
- Annual loaded apprentice employment cost
- $45,000
- Annual training & equipment cost
- $5,000
First-year apprenticeship contribution
Example result only, not a forecast or promise.
- Productive-equivalent apprentice hours
- 900
- Supervision opportunity cost
- $22,500
- Employment + training investment
- $50,000
What to do with this result
Plan a staged skills pathway and required supervision; productive-equivalent assumptions do not replace licensing or safety requirements.
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Calculation method
Net first-year contribution = apprentice hours × productive-equivalent share × hourly contribution − supervisor hours × displaced contribution − loaded apprentice pay − training.
Assumptions and limitations
- Example inputs are editable scenarios, not Aryo results or independently verified industry benchmarks.
- Use local quoted costs and your actual job history. Estimates exclude licensing, code, safety and legal determinations.