This paper presents an evaluation of heterogeneous labour patterns in small, labour limited queueing systems. Three heterogeneous labour patterns, a homogeneous labour force and two labour assignment rules are examined. The experimental systems consist of three machine centres in parallel, each with its own queue. The arrival process is Poisson, and the queue priority rule is first-come-first-served. Each machine centre contains one machine, and the service times are exponentially distributed. The number of labourers is two. The experimental model is a GERTS QR stochastic network simulator. The evaluation focuses upon the relative merits of the various labourer efficiency patterns and offers an economic interpretation of the experimental results.