Crew overview

Crews enable you to include the cost of labor and equipment in the price of items. For example, you might set up a framing crew that consists of two labor resources: a Carpenter 1 and a Carpenter 2. You might assign the framing crew to your 2x6 stud items.

If you assign a crew to an item, Sage Estimating (SQL) includes the cost of that crew when calculating the item price. The hourly rates and other costs used to calculate the total cost of the crew resources are stored in rate tables. You can set up special rate tables to handle local labor rates or overtime pay scales.

To set up and use crews . . .

In the standard database:

1. Select the crew pricing method.

   For more information, see Crew Pricing tab.

2. Create a list of resources.

   For more information, see Setting up a new crew resource.

3. Use the resources to create crews.

   For more information, see Setting up a new crew.

4. Use the resources to create rate tables.

   For more information, see Setting up a new rate table for crew pricing.

5. Assign crews to items.

   For more information, see Assigning a crew to an estimate item.

In the estimate:

1. Select the labor and equipment rate tables for the estimate.

2. Take off items.

3. Modify crews and rate tables, if necessary.

Using the crew assigned to an item in the spreadsheet (example),Sage Estimating (SQL) obtains the number of resources in that crew (example). Then Sage Estimating (SQL) applies the rates and benefits from the rate tables specified for the estimate (example) to determine the labor and equipment costs (example).