Benchmark Eligibility Criteria

This section defines the data quality standards a hotel must meet to receive a Hotel Labor Benchmarker report for the month.

The Context These criteria are checked monthly. If a hotel fails any of these checks, it is marked "Not Eligible" and excluded from benchmark comparisons to ensure data integrity. You can view specific failures in the Eligibility Details report.

The Data

Criterion	Requirement	Common Cause for Failure
Monthly ADR	At least $5.00	Missing Rooms Revenue data in Night Audit Entry.
Monthly Rooms Revenue	More than $0	Missing Night Audit Entry or new hotel setup incomplete.
Monthly Rooms Sold	More than 0	Missing Night Audit Entry.
Data Sufficiency	20+ days of revenue data	Missing daily entries for more than 10 days in the month.
Unknown Positions	Less than 2% of total wages/hours	Employees clocking in with unmapped or "Unknown" position codes.
Average Wage	At least $7.25/hour	Missing pay rates in Employee profiles (check Salaried staff).
Occupancy %	No more than 120%	Data entry error (e.g., typing 1000 rooms sold instead of 100).
Monthly Wages/Hours	More than 0	Time clock connectivity issues or no punches received.
Active Data	At least 27 days of labor data	Hotel recently onboarded or offboarded during the month.

Limits

• Correction Window: Benchmark data is published on the 20th of the following month. Data corrections must be made before this date, or you must manually "Rebuild Data" in the Benchmarker menu to regenerate the report.