Estimate labor
like a pro.

A free Google Sheets template that turns the labor hours in your estimate into a week-by-week crew plan, and shows you the variance before the job does.

Turn the labor hours in your estimate into a real week-by-week timeline.
Catch the gap between estimated and scheduled hours while you can still fix it.
Auto-totalling workplan and crew-hours-per-week built in. Make a copy and go.

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How it works

Four steps from estimate to crew plan.

The template does the math. Your job is to be honest about the weeks.

Make your copy

Open the template and choose Use template (or File → Make a copy). Enter the project name and your start date. Every week start fills in from there.

Enter proposal hours

Drop in the total labor hours from your estimate. That’s the benchmark everything else gets measured against.

Build the timeline

Week by week, name the phase and assign positions and hours: PM, superintendent, lead carpenter, carpenter, apprentice, laborer. Totals build as you type.

Read the variance

Timeline hours against proposal hours. A positive number means you’ve scheduled more labor than the estimate covers, and you found it in week zero, not week fourteen.

Get started

Grab the template and lay out your next job week by week.