Compensation budgeting software and project budget sheets: work the pool, forecast the project, keep the budget.
Compensation budgeting software and project budgeting software for the budget holder in a small or mid-sized business who works the numbers by hand today: a project's earned value against its spend, the burn per week and the forecast at completion, three departments rolled into one year-to-date variance and a full-year run rate, and a compensation pool's merit and promotion money with the employer on-cost on top. Free, on the page, no account. Pro keeps every budget line, actual, commitment and approval against the record. Nothing here is an accounting rule, a pay benchmark or advice.
Built for the arithmetic in the budget, on purpose
Opexvo is not a general ledger, has no bank feed and no payroll run, and it is not going to get them. Every figure on every sheet is there because someone holding a budget needs the forecast, the variance and the pool to be right before the month closes.
Forecast the project. Roll up the departments. Size the pool.
- Earned value, burn and the forecast at completion. $150,000 spent against $240,000 at 55% complete is $132,000 of work done and $18,000 over; $7,500 a week for 16 more weeks forecasts $270,000 at completion, $30,000 over the budget, worked on the page before the next status meeting rather than after it.
- Three budgets rolled into one variance and one run rate. $1,200,000 across three departments is $600,000 for the first six months; $610,000 spent is $10,000 over year to date and a $1,220,000 run rate for the year, with department A carrying $20,000 of the overspend on its own. The sheet shows which department, not just that the total is over.
- Merit, promotions and the on-cost, in one figure. 40 people at $65,000 is $2,600,000 of base pay; 4% merit adds $104,000, five promotions at $8,000 add $40,000, and 22% employer on-cost on the new base adds $603,680: a $3,347,680 compensation budget, $83,692 a head, filed against the pool and exported.
The free tools
Every sheet on this site computes on the page, free, with no account and no trial clock. The free version is the whole calculation; the paid plan is about keeping it: budget lines per project, department and pool, actuals and commitments posted against them, the approval state, your name on the paperwork and a clean export.
- Project budgeting software: Work a project's earned value against its spend, the burn per week, the weeks left, the forecast at completion and the overrun.
- Enterprise budgeting software: Roll three departments' budgets and actuals into one year-to-date variance, a full-year run rate and the department carrying the overspend.
- Compensation budget: Work a compensation budget from headcount and average pay: the merit pool, the promotion pool, the employer on-cost and the total per head.
Opexvo Pro
The sheets are free forever. Pro turns them into the record: every budget line with its actuals and commitments dated, every project's forecast and every department's variance kept month by month, every compensation pool with its approvals, your company name and logo on the printed sheets, no watermark, and an export when the board or the auditor asks. Opexvo Pro is $79 per month for every budget holder in the business, billed monthly.
