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Your electrical crew is paid for 100 hours of work this week. They spend 75 hours directly installing electrical systems on customer sites, and 25 hours cleaning the warehouse and restocking vans. Because restocking vans is necessary to complete customer work, those 25 hours are counted as billable, making your billable utilization rate 100% for the week.
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The billable utilization rate for an electrical crew is calculated by dividing billable hours by ____.
An electrical contractor reviews their payroll and job logs and notices that their crew's billable utilization rate has decreased recently, despite the business paying for the same number of total labor hours. What does this decrease indicate about the crew's time?
Your electrical crew is paid for 100 hours of work this week. They spend 75 hours directly installing electrical systems on customer sites, and 25 hours cleaning the warehouse and restocking vans. Because restocking vans is necessary to complete customer work, those 25 hours are counted as billable, making your billable utilization rate 100% for the week.
As an electrical contractor, you must analyze how different operational activities impact your crew's billable utilization rate. Match each crew activity scenario to its correct analytical impact on the billable utilization formula (Billable Hours / Total Paid Hours).
As an electrical contractor, you must evaluate the labor efficiency of your crews. Rank the following weekly technician schedules from the HIGHEST billable utilization rate (1st) to the LOWEST billable utilization rate (3rd).