Employee productivity calculator
Output per employee, per hour, and against the wage bill.
How it works
Per employee = output ÷ employees · Per hour = output ÷ (employees × hours each)
Use revenue if you want a figure you can benchmark, and gross profit if you want one that means something — revenue per head flatters a business that resells at thin margins. Count full-time equivalents rather than headcount, or a team of part-timers will look twice as productive as it is. The labour ratio is output divided by the wage bill: how many units of output each unit of pay produces.
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Frequently asked questions
- Revenue or gross profit?
- Gross profit gives the more honest picture, because revenue per head rewards reselling at low margin. Revenue is more common in published benchmarks, so use it if you want to compare externally.
- How do I count part-time staff?
- As fractions of a full-time equivalent. Two people at twenty hours a week are one FTE, not two, and counting them as two halves your apparent productivity.
- What is a good labour ratio?
- Sector-bound, but below about 1.5 on gross profit is usually tight for a services business. Track the direction rather than the absolute.