The Staffing screen is the third option on the left hand menu in 5-Out. It offers a detailed breakdown of your automated labor budget and allows you to look at it by labor budget $, sales per labor hour, and employee count. You can also look at labor variances on this screen.
This screen makes it easily to identify weeks, days, and hours when you will be over or understaffed.
What the Staffing screen shows you
The Staffing screen shows you your:
Automated labor budget (white dotted line) from your labor goal and 5-Out forecast
Scheduled labor (translucent yellow bars) from your scheduler software
Actual labor (solid yellow bars) from your time and attendance software / clock in's and out
5-Out does not pull individual employee labor from the POS, just the totals
NOTE: 5-Out helps you manage controllable costs, which for labor is your hourly employee pay. All 5-Out reporting excludes salaried employees.
On this screen, you can toggle between charts that break down:
Labor Budget by $
Sales per Labor Hour
Labor Budget by Employee Count
Defining key Labor terms and equations
Term | Definition | Equation |
Labor % | A profitability metric that measures how much of your revenue that you plan to spend on labor | = Labor $ / Total Revenue |
Labor $ Budget | The actual dollars you have to spend on labor | = Labor % * Total Revenue Forecast |
Sales per Labor Hour (SPLH) | An efficiency metric that measures much you earns in sales for every hour of employee time | = Total Revenue Forecast / Labor $ |
Labor Budget by Employee Count | A labor budget breakdown that shows the number of hours worth of employee time you can schedule | = Labor $ Budget / Employee Hourly Wage $ |
Navigating the Labor Screen
Login to 5-Out
Click the third icon on the left side menu which looks like two people
Select a single day or date range if you do not want to view the default next 7 days
NOTE: the charts show daily budget versus actuals when you have selected multiple days, and hourly when you select a single day
Toggle between three views of your labor:
Labor Budget by $
Sales per Labor Hour
Labor Budget by Employee Count
Scroll down to see labor variances in your schedule versus your budget