Labour Substitution Comparator

Hand-rolling caps a plant at what a team finishes in a shift. This compares the machine rate against the headcount that would match it, at a wage you supply — not one we assume for you.

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Enter your figures and press compare.

Data Privacy & Source

Runs in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is stored. Rolls per operator per hour is yours to measure on your own bench — we publish no figure for it. The $24.67 default is the US food-manufacturing production-worker average hourly earnings published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for July 2026; it is what the worker is paid, not your loaded cost.

Send us your shift pattern and we will size the line to it