Crews.daily_equipment_allowance is added to the sum of tier day rates to price one crew day. It inflates the pool by days figured, and is deducted at days actually worked when the surplus is computed.
Also called: equipment allowance · truck cost per day · fuel money · road cost
- 1crewDailyTotal = sum of the crew's tier rates + dailyEquipmentAllowance.
- 2allotment = daysFigured x crewDailyTotal.
- 3equipmentTotal = distinct days anyone was on site x the allowance.
- 4surplus = allotment - base pay - equipmentTotal.
Fuel, the truck and the equipment cost the same whether a crew is four men or six, so charging them per head prices a crew wrong in both directions. A flat allowance is added per day worked — one builder runs $300 — on top of the crew's day rates, and that is what turns a ladder of tiers into the real crew-day figure a job gets priced against. Leaving it off the builder's side of the ledger was a live error: a job that ran one day long reported $985 still sitting in the pool when the builder was actually $1,415 down.
- Crew day costs that ignore the vehicle and equipment.
- Per-person allowances that scale wrongly with crew size.
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