Pick labor and staffing per shift
Labor hours and pickers needed for a shift's order lines at your measured pick rate.
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Comes with the warehouse and forklift crew plan: every tool for the role, from $10.20 a month at the launch price.
- Your own numbers, worked out as often as you like
- The full shift staffing plan you can print or save to My work
- 4 cited sources, linked, with the checks to make
- Every other tool for the same role, in the same plan
- A plain-words read of your result (a fuller AI read with the Bifrost AI add-on)
Included in these role plans
Example result · fictional numbers
What you get: shift staffing plan
Worked out by this tool from its default inputs. Its role plan lets you run your own numbers, print the sheet and save it.
9 pickers and 7 packers for 1,800 orders; pick and pack labor $3,161.60, $1.76 an order
- Lines to pick
- 5,760
- Pick labor hours
- 52.4 h
- Productive hours per picker
- 6.16 h
- Pickers needed
- 9
- Capacity at that headcount
- 6,101 lines
Labor cost for the shift
- Loaded pay rate
- $24.70 an hour ($19.00 plus 30%)
- Pick labor
- $1,778.40 (9 pickers × 8.0 paid hours)
- Packers needed
- 7 packers for 40.0 packing hours at 45 orders an hour
- Pack labor
- $1,383.20
- Cost per order
- $1.76
- Pick cost per line
- $0.31
Also on the sheet
- Scheduled crew against the cutoff · 6 lines, starting with “Lines the scheduled crew can pick”
- Crew size: when the last line is picked and the cost · 3 lines, starting with “8 pickers (scheduled)”
The plain-words read of this example
5,760 lines at 110 lines an hour need 9 pickers, plus 7 packers for the 1,800 orders. At $24.70 an hour loaded, pick and pack labor is $3,161.60, or $1.76 an order. 8 pickers leave 337 lines: add 1 more or about 3.6 overtime hours; overtime at 1.5 times pay would cost about $133.54. The last 2.0 hours before the cutoff need 7 pickers picking at once for the late orders. Use a measured pick rate for this method; travel time drives it.
4 cited sources
- Overtime pay (Fair Labor Standards Act) (US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division)
- Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (quarterly news release) (US Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Occupational Employment and Wages: Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand (53-7062) (US Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Warehouse & Distribution Science (free textbook) (John J. Bartholdi III and Steven T. Hackman, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Plus 5 step-by-step checks, a print layout and a link that reopens it with your numbers.
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