Actual Garment Production Cost – The Way Factories Calculate Production Cost

In the daily production report, many factories include actual garment production cost from the day of loading a style.

In this article, production cost represents sewing room cost. Factories consider all direct and indirect personnel who

are involved in garment sewing and managing sewing lines in calculating garment production cost. In case, a

production manager handles 10 lines then one-tenth of his daily salary is considered as cost incurred per line per

day. If a floor-in-charge runs 3 lines (considering each line run single style) then one-third of his daily salary

is considered as cost incurred in the production of a style.

Following cost sharing method, the daily salary of all personnel is calculated for a style. If operators work overtime

and others stay to assist them then overtime salary is also added to total daily wages. Overtime salary (hourly rate)

may differ from the normal working hours.

“Actual Garment production cost” is a component of daily production report (DPR). Actual garment cost is

represented in two ways –

 Actual garment cost for the day and

 Till date average cost per unit

The formula used for the cost calculation = Total salary for the day/ Total production (in pieces).

In the following table, an example of cost calculation has been shown that is normally used by garment manufacturing

factories.
(Note: All salaries and manpower used in the above costing sheet are only for example.)

In the above example – Production manager handles 5 lines and Floor-in-charge handles 4 lines. So, their salary is

divided by 5 and 4 respectively as a contribution to each line. If you want to use this sheet for your factory, add

manpower in the list and their actual daily wages (salary per day) according to your factory.

During learning curve, production cost per piece will be high and as learning curve ends daily production cost goes

down. At this time, the actual production cost is being checked with target cost. It helps a company to assess factory

performance in term of meeting garment cost.