How to Use This Tool
Turn observed pick and packing time into labor cost per shipped order. Calculate pick-and-pack labor hours, total cost and cost per order from order volume, items, handling time and wage assumptions.
The decision this tool supports
A warehouse may know payroll and order volume but not whether item count or packing time is driving cost per order. This page keeps the decision bounded to labor cost per order and the supporting outputs shown beside it. Pick and Pack Labor does not import an account, infer a market rate, or silently substitute an industry average.
Inputs and units
The Pick and Pack Labor calculation uses Orders in batch, Average items per order, Pick time per item, Pack time per order, Loaded labor rate. Keep all money values in one currency and all time, distance, mass, energy or volume entries in the unit printed beside the field. Mixing Pick and Pack Labor scopes can produce a plausible number with the wrong meaning.
- Orders in batch is entered in orders.
- Average items per order is entered in items.
- Pick time per item is entered in minutes.
- Pack time per order is entered in minutes.
- Loaded labor rate is entered in currency/hour.
Formula and worked check
Labor minutes = orders × items/order × pick minutes/item + orders × pack minutes/order; cost = minutes ÷ 60 × loaded hourly rate. For 1,200 orders at 2.5 items, 0.6 pick minutes per item and 1.5 packing minutes per order, labor is 60 hours and $1.20 per order at $24/hour. The Pick and Pack Labor default is an executable known-answer case, not a benchmark or recommendation. Change one input and verify that the direction of labor cost per order still matches the stated relationship.
How to interpret the result
Compare the cost per order across like-for-like order profiles; separate oversized, hazardous or gift-wrap workflows instead of averaging them away. The additional Pick and Pack Labor outputs expose the denominator, comparison, capacity or reverse value needed to audit the primary result instead of presenting one unexplained number.
Assumptions
- Observed times represent the same order profile as the batch.
- Loaded labor rate includes the costs the user intends to allocate.
- Order count is positive.
Save the Pick and Pack Labor input values and date with any material decision. A later Pick and Pack Labor rerun is reproducible only when the same assumptions and units are available.
Limitations and safety boundary
The estimate excludes receiving, replenishment, travel variation, breaks, supervision, equipment, space, benefits outside the loaded rate and errors. Pick and Pack Labor is an estimate and cannot replace a contract, local code, licensed professional, calibrated measurement, lender statement or platform report where one governs the decision.
Source and privacy
The Pick and Pack Labor definition or rule was checked against U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics on 2026-08-26. Recheck U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics when a specification or policy behind Pick and Pack Labor can change. Pick and Pack Labor arithmetic runs in this browser tab; ecech does not receive the values through a calculation API.
Sources & assumptions
Tool Spec v2 · verified 2026-08-26. Platform rules and fees can change; the editable inputs remain authoritative for your account.
Official references
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (checked 2026-08-26)
Model assumptions
- Observed times represent the same order profile as the batch.
- Loaded labor rate includes the costs the user intends to allocate.
- Order count is positive.
- The estimate excludes receiving, replenishment, travel variation, breaks, supervision, equipment, space, benefits outside the loaded rate and errors.
