TheWorkingGM Live Roster & Labour Cost Planner

Build the rota before labour cost becomes the problem.

TheWorkingGM Live Roster & Labour Cost Planner gives hotel, restaurant, pub and accommodation managers one clear weekly view of shifts, paid hours, labour cost and forecast revenue.

Set the week, enter the planned shifts and the workbook does the operational calculations for you—so you can see the cost of the rota before it is issued.

Inside the workbook:

• A practical seven-day live roster

• Automatic paid-hours calculations, including breaks and overnight shifts

• Editable roles, departments and hourly rates

• Automatic shift-cost calculations

• Daily labour cost and labour percentage against forecast revenue

• A weekly summary of paid hours, labour cost and variance to target

• Built-in checks for missing employee names, zero rates and invalid hours

How to use it:

1. Set your site, week, labour target, roles and rates.

2. Enter each planned shift in the blue input cells.

3. Review the daily and weekly labour summary.

4. Resolve anything flagged on the Checks tab before issuing the rota.

5. Duplicate the file for the following week and keep the previous week as a record.

No complicated rostering software. No management theory. Just a clear, editable tool your operation can use every week.

Format: Editable Excel workbook (.xlsx). Single-site licence included. This is a management planning tool and does not replace accounting, payroll, tax, legal or employment-law advice.