CostLora
Regional labor cost intelligence
Official BLS OEWS wage percentiles, transparent Low / Typical / High mapping, and a deterministic team labor-cost calculator — built for employer planning, not guesswork.
24 published calculators · 10 metros · 8 occupations
What is CostLora?
CostLora turns published BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics into practical employer labor-cost estimates. You get OFFICIAL percentiles, DERIVED schedule math you can audit, and clear YOUR INPUT assumptions — never silent substitutions.
How it works
01
Select metro × occupation
Only eligibility-gated OEWS areas with complete P25 / Median / P75.
02
Review official wages
See Low / Typical / High mapped transparently to OEWS percentiles.
03
Scale to your team
Enter headcount and schedule. Annual team cost is DERIVED — never labeled as BLS.
Popular labor-cost tools
View all metrosStockers and Order Fillers
$18.07
Typical (median)
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX · SOC 53-7065
Open calculator →Electricians
$28.45
Typical (median)
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX · SOC 47-2111
Open calculator →Electricians
$28.37
Typical (median)
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX · SOC 47-2111
Open calculator →Stockers and Order Fillers
$17.74
Typical (median)
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX · SOC 53-7065
Open calculator →Stockers and Order Fillers
$18.48
Typical (median)
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN · SOC 53-7065
Open calculator →Electricians
$49.21
Typical (median)
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN · SOC 47-2111
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Data credibility
Wage inputs come from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS). Geographies are metropolitan statistical areas — not municipal city limits. Every labor cost calculator page shows publisher, dataset, year, retrieval, and content hash.
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