Loaded labor rate
The full cost to an organization of an hour of a given employee's time, including salary, benefits, and overhead, typically maintained by a finance or people-operations team and used as the standard multiplier for pricing labor-hours in a cost estimate.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Certified AI Data Governance Professional (CADGP).
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
The full cost to an organization of an hour of a given employee's time, including salary, benefits, and overhead, typically maintained by a finance or people-operations team and used as the standard multiplier for pricing labor-hours in a cost estimate.
An employee's full hourly cost including salary, benefits, payroll taxes, and overhead, generally 25 to 40 percent above base pay (a multiplier of roughly 1.25 to 1.4); used to value reclaimed time honestly.
An employee's full hourly cost including salary, benefits, and overhead (often roughly 1.25 to 1.4 times base salary), used to value reclaimed time, valid only when paired with an honest escalation.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- Measuring AI ROI: Productivity Gains That Matter · AI in the Workplace and Team Leadership, Certified AI Practitioner: Workplace Foundations
- ROI Calculation Tools and Templates · AI in the Workplace and Team Leadership, Certified AI Practitioner: Workplace Foundations
- The cost of bad data: pricing last quarter's silent drift in real money · The Money of Data, Certified AI Data Governance Professional (CADGP)
Where it shows up at work
A definition is where Loaded labor rate starts. The lessons above teach it inside the competencies below, which are what job descriptions ask for and what the GAGE credential records. Every link here is drawn from the same careers map that builds a role's readiness check.
Builds an honest value model: baseline, measured change, cost, risk, and the projects that should be stopped.
2 lessons on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Roles that hire for it
Each role page shows the full competency set, what the seat decides, and a readiness check against your own evidence.
- Chief AI Officerneeds it at depth
- AI Adoption and Enablement Leadneeds working knowledge
- AI Program Managerneeds working knowledge · 11 open postings this week
- Operations Manager, AI-readyneeds working knowledge
- Chief Information Officer, technology leadership editionneeds working knowledge
- AI Product Manager, responsible product editionneeds working knowledge · 3 open postings this week
How job descriptions say it
Postings rarely use the textbook word. These are the phrases the careers map reads as asking for the competencies above.
One interview question about it
How would you measure the return on an AI deployment honestly, including the costs people prefer to leave out?
Asked of candidates for roi and value measurement for ai. Answering it in your own words is exactly how a GAGE topic is passed, and the credential records the pass where an employer can check it.
If you come from another field
Some backgrounds already carry this competency, and the readiness check gives credit for it.
- A business, MBA or technology management degree carries it as a claim to back up: Value and return measurement are a course you passed.
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.