What one OEE point is worth in the United Kingdom
On a reference two-shift line (3,600 planned hours a year, a crew of four, 150 kW average load, starting at 60% OEE) one extra OEE point is worth £7,483 a year in the United Kingdom at national costs.
Labour cost per hour, manufacturing
TEEPTRAK estimate: ASHE 2025 median full-time manufacturing pay £38,956 + employer NICs 15% above £5,000 + 3% pension on qualifying earnings, ÷ 1,775 hours worked = £25.4
Industrial electricity per kWh
DESNZ Quarterly Energy Prices, manufacturing average, Q4 2025, excl. Climate Change Levy
One OEE point, per line and year
80% of the value is labour time and 20% is electricity.
Position among 22 countries
Ranked by the value of one OEE point on the same reference line, converted to euro. Full table on the country benchmark table. Converted at the 2025 ECB average rate.
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How the United Kingdom compares
Same reference line, same formula, national costs. All 22 countries are on the country benchmark table.
| Country | Labour €/h | Electricity €/kWh | One OEE point, €/year | # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 29.6 | 0.1961 | 8,733 | 12 |
| Ireland | 42.4 | 0.2552 | 12,268 | 8 |
| France | 47.1 | 0.1488 | 12,436 | 7 |
| Germany | 49.5 | 0.2369 | 13,782 | 5 |
| Netherlands | 47.3 | 0.2192 | 13,106 | 6 |
| EU-27 cost base | 35.0 | 0.1920 | 9,962 | · |
What moves the number in the United Kingdom
UK manufacturers paid 16.8p per kWh on average in Q4 2025, excluding the Climate Change Levy (DESNZ). The labour figure is built from ASHE earnings plus statutory employer costs, because the UK publishes no Eurostat-comparable hourly labour cost. 80% of the value is labour time and 20% is electricity.
A PDF in English: sensitivity tables for starting OEE, shift patterns and crew sizes, the value-added view, how the United Kingdom compares, a 30-day baseline plan, funding routes and every source.
Public money for a measurement project in the United Kingdom
In England, Made Smarter Adoption gives SME manufacturers match-funded grants of up to £20,000 for hardware and software, plus impartial specialist advice, in nine English regions. Manufacturing premises in England are required; Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland run their own schemes.
- What an OEE system really costs: the 3-year calculator
- Made Smarter: Adoption programme
- TEEPTRAK: Made Smarter funding guide for UK manufacturers (2026)
Method and limits
- Reference line
- 3,600 planned hours a year (two eight-hour shifts on 225 days), four operators per shift, 150 kW average electrical load, 60% OEE before improvement. Change any of it in the calculator.
- Labour cost
- TEEPTRAK estimate: ASHE 2025 median full-time manufacturing pay £38,956 + employer NICs 15% above £5,000 + 3% pension on qualifying earnings, ÷ 1,775 hours worked = £25.4
- Electricity
- DESNZ Quarterly Energy Prices, manufacturing average, Q4 2025, excl. Climate Change Levy Converted at the 2025 ECB average rate.
- Value-added view
- Not shown for the United Kingdom: no like-for-like value-added series on the Eurostat basis used for the other countries.
- What it is not
- Not a margin figure, and not everything a point is worth: maintenance, scrap and overhead effects are left out, and they usually make the real figure larger.
Questions
- How much is one OEE point worth in the United Kingdom?
- About £7,483 a year on a two-shift line with four operators and 150 kW load, starting from 60% OEE, at the United Kingdom’s national labour and electricity costs. On three shifts (6,000 planned hours) the same point is worth about £12,472.
- Why does each OEE point get worth less as OEE rises?
- Because each point is a smaller share of what the line already produces: from 60% to 61% saves 1/61 of planned time, from 80% to 81% only 1/81. At 80% OEE the same point is worth £5,636 in the United Kingdom.
- Should I use this number in a business case?
- Use it as the floor. It prices only released hours and electricity; if the line is sold out, value the extra output at your contribution margin instead, and add scrap and maintenance effects once you have measured them.
- All 22 countries
- OEE calculator: availability × performance × quality
- What one OEE point is worth at your own margin
- Manufacturing data profile: United Kingdom
Sources
- ONS ASHE 2025: employee earnings (median full-time manufacturing pay £38,956, via Statista)
- DESNZ: Quarterly Energy Prices, March 2026 (manufacturing electricity, Q4 2025, excl. CCL)
- Bank of Finland, average annual euro exchange rates 2025 (ECB reference rates)
- ManufacturingML: United Kingdom manufacturing data profile
- ManufacturingML: Western European manufacturing 2026: the Eurostat data (extracted 22 Sep 2026)
Published by TEEPTRAK SAS, which makes production-monitoring and OEE software. The costs are public statistics; the reference line is an assumption, stated so you can change it.