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Crew No Show Cost Calculator
Put a number on what no shows and call offs cost your crews each year. A missing worker on a jobsite is rarely just one missing worker. A partner stands idle, a task waits, an inspection slips, and the schedule pushes. This shows the direct pay and the jobsite ripple separately so you can see exactly where the figure comes from.
Before you start
What you will need. Field headcount across crews, Average annual pay per field worker, No show and call off days per worker per year, Benefits, as percent of pay
Your field crews
Assumptions
Yearly cost of crew no shows
How the cost adds up
The method
What crew no shows cost and how this is calculated
A no show on a jobsite costs you three ways at once. The pay still goes out for the day. Coverage fills the gap. And the rest of the crew loses output while the schedule rearranges around the hole. On paired tasks the loss doubles, because the partner who did show up has nothing to do. This tool rolls those into a single daily figure and scales it by your no show days and field headcount.
How this is calculated
The method
Start with the daily cost of a field worker, which is annual pay plus benefits divided by working days. Multiply by the unplanned absence days and headcount to get the direct wage cost. Then apply a multiplier for the jobsite ripple. Peer reviewed CDC research uses 1.6 to capture the spillover onto coworkers, so the default here is 1.6. The direct cash cost is shown on its own line so the ripple is never hidden.
Why the ripple runs high in the field
Construction work is sequenced. Trades stack behind each other, inspections book in windows, and concrete does not wait. One missing worker can idle a partner, stall a task, and push everything scheduled behind it. That is why a no show at 6 a.m. costs more than the same absence in an office. Set the multiplier to 1.0 if your crews absorb absences easily, and raise it past 1.6 where two-person tasks and tight sequencing dominate.
What to do with the number
Use it to justify the boring fixes that work. A written call-in standard with a deadline and a named contact. A points policy applied the same way on every jobsite. And foremen who document instead of improvise. The cost of building that system is a fraction of the figure this calculator puts on doing nothing.
Carry this into the decision
Stop the no-shows this calculator just priced
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This tool estimates from the figures you enter. It is general information rather than legal, tax, or accounting advice, so check the result against your own records before you rely on it.