Advanced Planning, Scheduling & APS worked example

Overtime Schedule Cost at 66% schedulable overtime share: a worked example

Suppose schedulable overtime share falls to 66%. This page works the full calculation at that level so you can see exactly which result moves and by how much. Estimate overtime cost needed to support a production schedule from overtime hours, premium rate, schedulable share, and fixed staffing cost.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Planned overtime hours: 64 hr (held at the documented default)
  • Overtime labor rate: 78 $ / hr (held at the documented default)
  • Schedulable overtime share: 66 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 92)
  • Supervision and startup cost: 600 $ (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Schedulable overtime labor = planned overtime hours × overtime labor rate × schedulable overtime share.
  • Overtime schedule cost works out to 3,895 $ overtime at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Overtime labor rate works out to 60.86 $ / hr at these inputs.
  • Schedulable overtime labor works out to 3,295 $ overtime at these inputs.
  • Supervision and startup cost works out to 600 $ at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where schedulable overtime share sits at 92% and the headline result is 5,193 $ overtime, this scenario comes in 25% below the baseline at 3,895 $ overtime.
  • It computes the total cost of a planned overtime block by multiplying planned hours by the loaded OT rate and the share you can actually schedule, then adding fixed supervision and startup overhead. When the numbers land here, the stressed input is the lever to work; the walkthrough above shows exactly how much each output recovers as it climbs back toward the baseline.

Results at a glance

  • Overtime schedule cost: 3,895 $ overtime (headline result)
  • Overtime labor rate: 60.86 $ / hr
  • Schedulable overtime labor: 3,295 $ overtime
  • Supervision and startup cost: 600 $

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Overtime Schedule Cost calculator, set schedulable overtime share to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.