that might be the AVERAGE hourly cost per employee...

our plant [[not ford) likes to throw out "BURDEN RATE" which also includes the cost per hour per employee for running the plant...

we have a data center [[one of 3 in our company) that pays "rent" so to speak into the building fund which supposedly helps counter our electric bill [[for lighting, fans and running our air compressors), water bill and natural gas bill...

depending on how many employees they have in the plant will determine the plants burden rate. at one point my plant was saying it cost the company $99 an hour per employee. i havent heard what the figure is now but we have pattern makers [[3-D patterns for stamping dies) layed off and our total plant workforce is about 1/4 of what it was when i first started there in 1997...

we are all [[except a few laborers) skilled trades so our hourly rate is a little bit higher than production workers...