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Predict · Labor-cost intelligence

Know what your actual labor costs should be. Today.

Offered rates updated daily, not yearly. And compare them to your own numbers.

Labor is about 60% of what a hospital spends — and it’s the number most organizations price with the least current information. Wage surveys arrive a year late. Agency rates move by the week. Calibrate™ closes that gap: an independent, healthcare-specific benchmark of what labor actually costs — wages, premium pay, and agency rates and spend — by role, specialty, and market.

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Market Position & Rate Analysis

Market benchmarks with actionable recommendations

RoleRN MarketJacksonville, FL UnitICU

Offered rates updated today, 9:12 AM

Your Rate$42.80per hour

Market Median$45.25per hour

Agency Equivalent$78.40per hour

Market Gap−5.4%below market

CARI™ insight

Your weekend differential is below market. Increasing it $2/hr is projected to cost $184K annually and could reduce $610K of agency exposure.

Premium Labor Trend% of total labor spend

Agency SpendMonthly trend

Role Comparison (Jacksonville Metro)Hourly rates

Role	Your Rate	Market	Agency	Gap
RN (ICU)	$42.80	$45.25	$78.40	−5.4%
RN (ED)	$41.10	$43.60	$74.20	−5.7%
LPN	$28.40	$30.75	$55.10	−7.6%
CNA	$19.20	$21.10	$38.40	−9.0%
Respiratory Therapist	$36.50	$38.90	$62.30	−6.2%

An illustrative example. Your own payroll and timekeeping data makes these insights specific to you.

Market Wage Atlas
Premium-Pay Decomposition
Rate Radar
Scenario Modeling
Premium-Labor Benchmark
Alerts & Quarterly Briefings
Labor Risk Watch

The savings opportunity

Most of your spend is people, and it’s priced blind.

Labor is one of the biggest drivers of medical cost trend — yet it is still priced off annual surveys that arrive a year late. CareTeams sizes the savings opportunity first, then measures labor cost daily so you can watch the dollars get captured.

~60%of hospital expensesare workforce, the single largest line.Source: AHA, 2025

1 yearold dataThe typical age of the wage and premium-labor data hospitals price from today.

1% or moreof hourly payrollOur savings target, sized with your own data.

$8.8Ma yearWhat 1% of hourly payroll means at an illustrative 18,000-employee system.

And when Verify™ is in place, hours nobody worked stop reaching payroll — a second lever on the same spend.

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Illustrative. Calibrate™ sizes what you pay before you commit.

Who Calibrate™ is built for

Evidence for every labor-cost decision.

Health system & hospital leaders

What to offer, when to escalate premium pay, when to convert contingent labor to staff: those calls get made week to week by CEOs, CFOs, CNOs, and CHROs — usually on instinct and last year’s survey. Calibrate™ puts the market in front of you on day one — and once your payroll and timekeeping data is connected, it puts your actual paid rates right next to it, so every call is made with evidence. No analyst team required.

Common questions

Are we above or below market for this role, in this market, this week?
What is our premium spend actually made of — overtime, incentives, differentials, agency?
What does a traveler really cost versus our loaded rate?
Where is the market moving ahead of our next union contract?
What happens to our budget if we raise a differential by $2?

Payers & enterprises

Provider labor is one of the biggest forces behind medical cost trend, yet it’s priced off data that arrives a year late. Calibrate™ gives actuarial and network teams a current, independent read on wage pressure before it shows up in medical cost — and gives owned care-delivery organizations the same operator benchmark.

Common questions

Where is wage pressure building across the markets we underwrite?
How is labor cost moving by market and provider peer group ahead of contract renewals?
Which network markets face contract expirations or strike risk?
How do our owned clinics and care-delivery sites compare to the market?

Your workforce

Pay that tracks the market is retention you don’t have to buy back later. When wages drift below market, clinicians notice long before the budget does. Calibrate™ shows you first, so you can fund the differential that keeps a nurse, not the agency contract that replaces her.

Common questions

Which roles are drifting below market right now?
Where would a targeted differential do more than a bonus?
Where is agency spend covering for a pay gap we could close?

Inside Calibrate™

Six instruments, one current picture of your labor market.

Market data

Market Wage Atlas

Hourly wage benchmarks by role, specialty, certification, and care setting for every market you subscribe to: median and range, market tightness, and how fresh the data is. State and national comparison views included.

Market data · Updated daily

Rate Radar

A daily offered-rate index built from job postings, by role and specialty — including travel packages and sign-on bonuses — with alerts when your market turns. Offered rates move before paid rates, so this is your early warning.

Market data

Premium-Labor Benchmark

Contract-labor spend, hours, and agency dependence for every hospital in your market, benchmarked against named peers and built on public cost-report data: the spike, the wind-down, and the dollars behind them.

Market data · Sharpened with your data

Premium-Pay Decomposition

What the market pays on top of base, skill by skill, holding market and seniority constant. Connect your data to see which of your premiums the market is driving and which ones are yours.

Market data

Labor Risk Watch

Union contract expirations and disruption-risk indicators, market by market, so a contract window or a strike doesn’t arrive as a surprise.

Unlocked with your data

Labor-Cost Scenario Model

Test a rate move, a new differential, or an FTE-versus-contingent decision against your actual footprint before you commit to it.

From the market to your margin

Connect your data. Unlock your numbers.

Calibrate™ shows you the market on day one. The insights that change a budget are the ones built on your own data.

Connect your payroll, timekeeping, and HR systems — mapped to your job architecture at implementation — and Calibrate™ turns a market benchmark into a benchmark of you: specific to your facilities, your roles, and your shifts, and sharper every pay period.

Your data stays yours: it’s never resold, and never attributable even if you choose to contribute it to the benchmark.

Unlocked with your data

Your actual paid rates by facility, role, specialty, and shift — against the market
Your premium spend decomposed: overtime, incentives, differentials, and agency, compared with peers
What a traveler really costs you versus your own loaded rate
Where your wages are drifting below market, before resignations show it
Scenarios run against your real footprint: a rate move, a new differential, agency substitution
Cost signal for CARI™, so staffing recommendations reflect your own numbers

How organizations engage

Start with the market. Add your data when you’re ready.

Tier 1

Market Intelligence

The full benchmark for your markets — Market Wage Atlas, Rate Radar, Premium-Labor Benchmark, and Labor Risk Watch — with state and national views, watch lists and alerts, and a quarterly market briefing for your executive team.

Tier 2

Health System & Hospital Intelligence

Everything in Market Intelligence, plus a private instance unlocked by connecting your data: your actual paid rates by facility, role, specialty, and shift benchmarked against the market; premium-spend decomposition; FTE-versus-contingent decision support; labor-negotiation reference data; and scenario modeling.

Tier 3

Enterprise Intelligence

Wage-pressure indices and forward wage indicators for actuarial trend-setting, network-contracting intelligence by market and provider peer group, and one benchmark across owned care-delivery, clinic, and affiliate entities.

Tier 4

Design Partner

A small number of close, trusted partners will shape the Calibrate™ product roadmap directly, with an enterprise agreement spanning current and future CareTeams modules, pricing locked at signing, and priority access to new capabilities.

Independent by design

Built to be trusted.

Calibrate™ is independent — owned by no staffing agency, no survey house, and no labor organization. Every published statistic is aggregated and anonymized across at least five contributing organizations, with no single contributor dominant. Contributed data is never resold and never attributable to the organization that shared it.

“Every new customer not only receives value from the benchmark, but also strengthens the benchmark for every other customer.”

Calibrate™ + CARI™

The cost signal behind every staffing decision.

Calibrate™ runs on the CareTeams platform alongside Verify™, Mobilize™, and Compliance Shield™, and it’s one of the signals CARI™ draws on.

When a unit is running short, CARI™ is designed to lay out the options — overtime, a float nurse, an incentive shift, agency — with what each one costs and what not acting costs, so a charge nurse can make the call in minutes instead of guessing.

Meet CARI™ →

Unit running short · CARI™

OvertimeWhat it costs
A float nurseWhat it costs
An incentive shiftWhat it costs
AgencyWhat it costs

Not actingWhat that costs

What Calibrate™ looks like in real life — an illustrative example

Monday, 7:10am. Before the budget meeting.

1
A CNO at a 300-bed hospital opens her Calibrate™ alert. Offered rates for ICU nurses in her market have been climbing for three weeks straight, and a competitor’s nursing contract expires in 60 days.
2
Because her hospital’s payroll and timekeeping data is connected, her own numbers are right there. Her ICU base pay is at market, but her differential sits below it, and agency spend on the unit has doubled since spring. She runs one scenario: a $3-an-hour differential across her 40 ICU nurses costs about $225,000 a year. Losing just four of them would cost more than that in turnover alone — before a single traveler is booked.
3
She walks into the budget meeting with the market, her actuals, and the math on one page. The decision takes ten minutes instead of a quarter. That’s what calibrated means.

The math on one page

$3/hr differential × 40 ICU nurses≈ $225,000 / yr

Losing just four of themCosts more in turnover alone

Time to decideTen minutes, not a quarter

See Calibrate™ in action.

No generic demo. A focused conversation about your markets, your premium spend, and the rate decisions coming up — and a clear picture of what your labor should cost. Ask about the Design Partner Program.

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