How much T&M work never gets billed?
Three inputs from your own jobs. A yearly figure for tickets lost between the field and the pay app. No email required.
What you get
4 things that decide this
- 01A yearly estimate of time-and-material work performed but never billed.
- 02A split between late tickets, disputed tickets and tickets that simply vanish.
- 03It will not manage your change orders. It shows what the paper trail is losing.
- 04Every input is yours. No benchmark is invented, because ticket discipline varies too much to claim one.
How it works
The T&M Leakage Calculator takes three inputs: T&M tickets written per week, average ticket value, and the share that comes back late, incomplete or not at all. That share is the leak, and only your project managers know it honestly.
Industry surveys from AGC and Sage report that field-to-office data still lags on most jobsites, with daily reports and tickets on paper long after the office went digital. That finding frames the problem. Your numbers size it.
The output is one sentence from your inputs: roughly what a year of leaked T&M work is worth. A signed ticket that reaches billing the same day is money. The same ticket three weeks late is an argument.
- FieldWork done, ticket written
- SignatureChased for days
- OfficeKeyed in, if it arrives
- Pay appBilled, disputed, or gone
Every day between field and pay app lowers the odds the ticket gets paid.
Field records that hold up, in production
Walk one job's tickets with an engineer
We trace a month of T&M from field to pay app and name where it leaks. Free, and the finding is yours.
Questions, answered
01We run Procore. Does this still apply?+
Often, yes. The leak usually lives between the tools: a ticket photographed on a phone, a signature chased by text, a spreadsheet on the side. The calculator measures the gap, whatever software surrounds it.
02Why is the late-or-never share my input?+
Because claiming an industry number would be invention. Ask two PMs what share of tickets come back clean and on time. Their answer is your input.
03Is anything stored?+
No. No email, no saved data.
