In-Depth Labour Cost Analysis

Drayton’s Consulting provides comprehensive labour cost analysis and benchmarking to support informed decision-making, workforce planning, and competitive project tendering.

Get ahead of your next tender and streamline your benchmarking

Drayton’s deliver detailed industry and sector wage and entitlement comparisons, enabling organisations to benchmark labour costs against relevant markets and ensure remuneration remains competitive, sustainable, and aligned with commercial objectives. Our analysis supports accurate pricing for project tenders and long-term workforce strategies.

Drayton’s also calculates salary benchmarking and remuneration structures, assessing base rates, allowances, loadings, and on-costs to develop clear and defensible pay frameworks. We assist in identifying cost drivers, assessing enterprise agreement impacts, and modelling proposed changes to wages and conditions.

Additional services include:

  • Labour cost modelling for enterprise agreements and major workplace changes

  • Award and agreement wage mapping and cost translation

  • Analysis of overtime, penalties, allowances, and shift arrangements

  • Scenario modelling to assess financial impacts of bargaining outcomes

  • Workforce cost forecasting and budgeting support

With a strong focus on accuracy, transparency, and commercial outcomes, Drayton’s Consulting provides labour cost insights that strengthen compliance, competitiveness, and business confidence.

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Drayton’s Consulting supports employers to confidently manage workplace compliance and employment law obligations, delivering practical advice and effective representation when it matters most

Human Resources

Drayton’s Consulting delivers practical and compliant human resources solutions tailored to the needs of modern workplaces.

IR Strategy & Advice

Drayton’s Consulting provides strategic industrial relations advice to help organisations proactively manage workforce challenges and achieve sustainable, commercially sound outcomes

Need clear workplace advice?

From enterprise agreements and labour cost analysis to disputes, compliance and project risk, Drayton’s provides practical, commercially focused workplace advice when it matters most.

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