These are the typical total labor rates for types of organizations. This includes all the associated pesonnel and activities as well as technicians. For large organizations this includes secretaries, accountants, cleaners, managers, lawyers, politicians, public relations people, human resources, salespeople, investor relations, insurance, security, lobbying, bribery ( legal and illegal ), wining and dining, theft, workers compensation, severance packages, nepotism, general corruption, internal investigators, etc... In other words, say you have an inefficient bureaucracy where only one in four of the hours worked is actually useful, the labor rate is four times higher than the rate payed to the technicians.

In rocket cost this is used to calculate the initial labor, in this case the location labor multiplier used in spacecraft cost is considered to be one.

initial labor = initial hours * labor rate
 

In spacecraft cost this is used to calculate the initial labor and the launch labor.

initial labor = initial hours * labor rate * location labor multiplier

Launch labor = launch hours * labor rate * location labor multiplier
 
 

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