I was tracking labor hours wrong for a whole job in Denver

We were finishing up a six unit townhouse build and the budget was way off... I kept looking at the weekly totals thinking we were okay. Then my lead foreman pointed out I was only counting the crew's eight hour days, not the extra two hours of overtime they were putting in every single day. That added up to over 300 hours we hadn't accounted for across the whole project. I felt like an idiot because the numbers were right there on the daily sheets, I just wasn't adding them right. Has anyone else messed up their time tracking this bad and how did you fix it for the next job?

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fisher.reese5d ago

Your foreman should have caught that sooner.

sarah_brown5d ago

Feel for you, that's a brutal way to find out. We've all missed details in the paperwork before.