Everything your board will ask
Plans, pricing, hosting and updates, laid out so you can walk your board through it in one sitting.
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What each plan includes
Prices
The price depends on the size of your local and the package. Price your local with the builder on the home page.
Partner pricing takes 10% off setup and the monthly plan when your local agrees to be listed as a client on this site. If you refer another local that signs, you receive 10% off your monthly plan for 12 months, and the new local pays standard pricing. Partner pricing is 10%, once per local, and the two paths do not combine.
Size is counted in dues-paying members. The Individual Tool is a one-time price.
What the prices assume
One local or bargaining unit, readable PDF or spreadsheet source documents, one pay plan, one pension plan or tier, and no connection to payroll or another outside system. Multi-tier pensions and unusual pay structures show as “from” prices in the builder. The final price is set in writing after the walkthrough, before the local approves the project.
Stay Current
Rules change. Pay tables step up, pension terms get amended, and the IRS resets 457 limits every January. Stay Current is the monthly plan that keeps the Member Tools Suite and the Full Member Platform correct. It starts at launch.
- Includes
- Hosting and security, bug fixes, support, and two scheduled rule updates a year.
- A scheduled update
- One release follows the January IRS limits. The other follows your contract year or fiscal year. Each covers one consolidated set of approved documents, up to two hours of work and one officer review round. Unused releases do not roll over.
- If a change cannot wait
- Tell us. It counts as one of the two. Extra releases are quoted.
- A bug
- The tool does not follow the rules approved at launch. Bugs are fixed at no charge on every plan.
- Individual Tool
- One price, one time, with no monthly plan. The tool is accurate for the documents it was built from and shows that date. If your rules change later, an update is quoted at of its setup price, with a minimum.
- Extra work
- Approved by the local first, then billed at an hour in 30-minute increments.
- Not included
- Flyers, news posts, content batches, redesigns, new tools, and additional pension tiers or bargaining units.
Labor Intelligence
Bargaining research and offer costing for your negotiating team. It is a separate engagement, and a local does not need a tool plan to order it.
- Reports
- Comparables report and CBA comparison, priced separately. From each.
- Offer model
- We rebuild the city’s offer, tie it out, and run what-ifs. From one time, with a retainer of a month during negotiations.
- Bargaining package
- Both reports, the offer model, the retainer, and help writing your information request to the city. one time, plus the retainer of a month during negotiations.
- The retainer
- When the city sends a new offer or your team changes a proposal, we recalculate the cost and return the updated sheet, usually the next business day. Up to recalculations a month, month to month.
- Your data
- Your bargaining data stays yours and is never shared with another local. Names and Social Security numbers are not needed.
Multi-tier pensions and multiple bargaining units are quoted higher. See the sample cost sheet on the home page
Hosting and security, stated plainly
- Your address
- Every local, including a single-tool buyer, gets its own address under locallaborsystems.com, in the form yourlocal.locallaborsystems.com. You do not need your own domain.
- One deployment per local
- No local’s files sit beside another’s.
- Your own domain
- Optional. A local that owns a domain can point a subdomain such as tools.yourlocal.org at its tool.
- The member password
- It is shared by all members. It deters casual visitors. It is not real security, and the agreement says so in those words.
- Member data
- The tools run in the member’s browser and store no member data on a server.
- Your documents
- A local’s CBA, pay records and plan documents are used only for its own build. Public examples use sample data.
- Full-site buyers
- We host the public site.
Common questions
How are the calculators checked before members use them?
We list every rule with the sentence it came from, test everyday and unusual cases, and review the results with the officers the local names. Pay results are reconciled against real pay advices on CBA-defined lines. Pension and DROP results are compared with official plan examples, and 457 limits with the correct year.
What happens when the CBA does not define a line on the stub?
The tool does not estimate it. City debits and credits with no published formula appear as manual-entry lines marked “formula not in your CBA,” and the tool shows the gap against the member’s stub.
What if a value cannot be found in our documents?
The build stops and we ask. Nothing about pay or pension is assumed.
Does an AI model calculate the numbers?
No. The calculations are plain arithmetic on rules read from your documents, so the same inputs always give the same result.
What does the setup price cover?
Reading your agreed documents, building the rules, applying your local’s branding, testing and launch. No plan covers a new tool, a redesign or content work.
What do I get with the Individual Tool?
One price, one time. We read your documents, build the rules, apply your branding, test and launch. The tool is accurate for the documents it was built from and shows that date. If your rules change later, we update it for a quoted price of of its setup price, with a minimum. The Suite and the Platform include updates through Stay Current.
What does Stay Current cover?
Rules change. Pay tables step up, pension terms get amended, and the IRS resets 457 limits every January. A calculator that does not change with them slowly becomes wrong. Stay Current prevents that. We host and secure your tool, fix any figure that does not match your documents, and publish two scheduled updates a year: one for the January IRS limits and one when your contract year or fiscal year turns over. Every update is retested against real pay advices, and your tool shows the date it was last verified. Stay Current is the monthly plan for the Member Tools Suite and the Full Member Platform and starts at launch.
What is a scheduled update?
Twice a year we update your tool for rule changes since the last release: new pay tables and COLAs, pension amendments, and the new 457 limits. One release follows the January IRS changes. The other follows your contract year or fiscal year. If a change cannot wait, tell us. It counts as one of the two.
What is Partner pricing?
Partner pricing takes off setup and the monthly plan when your local agrees to be listed as a client on this site. If you refer another local that signs, you receive off your monthly plan for months, and the new local pays standard pricing. Partner pricing is , once per local, and the two paths do not combine.
Can we start with one tool and add more later?
Yes. An Individual Tool can later become part of the Member Tools Suite or the Full Member Platform. Work already done is reused.
How is the searchable CBA different from searching a PDF?
It is organized by article and topic, takes plain-language searches, and returns the matching section with its page. The signed agreement remains the controlling document.
What do your members ask most?
Fifteen minutes on a working tool, then a written scope and price.