Vacancy Cost Intelligence.
An open leadership seat is rarely a salary you're saving — it's margin you're exposing. Model what a vacant PM, Estimator, Superintendent, or Operations role actually costs your business while it stays unfilled, calibrated to the work it governs.
The vacant role & its book of work.
The seat usually costs more empty than filled.
For construction leadership, the salary is the small number. The large number is the margin on the work the seat governs — bids that go out weaker, schedules that slip, and oversight that thins while the role sits open. Complexity, concurrency, and an expanding backlog all compound it.
Margin, not payroll
A PM on a $35M book influences far more value than their salary. Days without that oversight expose margin the salary saving never recovers.
Complexity multiplies risk
Mission-critical, healthcare, and electrical-infrastructure work carry higher margin-at-risk than standard commercial — the model weights for it.
Time is the multiplier
Cost scales with days vacant. Cutting time-to-fill — through pipeline built ahead of need — is the highest-leverage way to reduce it.
Know the seat is fillable — before the cost starts.
This calculator prices a vacancy once it’s open. The Labor Availability Assessment™ answers the prior question: do enough qualified people exist within range to fill this seat fast enough to matter? Get the staffing verdict before you bid, expand, or mobilize.
Know the comp before you open the search.
Have a seat open right now?
Tell us the role, the market, and the project. We'll come back with where the talent sits, what it pays, and how fast we can close the gap — the same read that drives a Labor Availability Assessment™.