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How to Add Indirect or Non-Productive Labor Time to an Electrical Estimate in EBM
In this video, our electrical estimating expert shows you where that time lives in your estimate (breaks, interruptions, setup, cleanup, and fixing mistakes are typically baked into your labor units) and how to add more of it in Electrical Bid Manager (EBM) when a job calls for it.
You'll see two ways to handle it in EBM: itemizing specific hours (like 50 hours for a project manager) or applying a flat percentage to labor, material, or both.
Topics covered:
- What counts as indirect or non-productive labor
- Why roughly 30% of your estimated hours already covers routine non-productive time
- When to add project manager hours or drive time
- Itemizing vs. applying a percentage in EBM
0:00 What counts as non-productive labor
0:18 Where it lives in your EBM job totals
0:56 Adding project manager hours or drive time
1:48 Percentage vs. itemizing in EBM
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