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Labour Costs

How do I list labour costs in my project?

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Written by Ashlee
Updated over 2 months ago

Labour Costs can be listed in the Items section of any given Project. First, choose an Item type that has "Track Time" enabled. You can configure this in your Settings>Item Type page. This setting can be configured for any Item Type:

When listing an Item with this setting enabled, you are then able to associate Labour Costs to that item using the available financial fields.

Qty/Hours allows you to list a number of hours for this item of labour.

Time Allocated will copy in the Hours from the Quantity/Hours field (if the Item Type is enabled for Track Time in the Item Types menu), and Time Spent will show all tracked time records against a given item.

Time Spent % is a percentage-based expression of Hours Allocated/Hours Spent.

Manual % is a field in which the assigned staff can describe current progress as a manually entered percentage.

The Rate $ field will allow you to enter both a Labour $ In (referring to staffing overhead costs) and Labour $ Out (referring to what you'll charge your clients) value, as seen below:

The Discount $ field can be used to express a discount in either percentage or fixed value forms. This will factor into the Profit field, which comes later.

The Tax % field is linked up to your Accounting Integration and is able to pull Tax Codes and values to be used against individual Items.

Total $ is a field that expresses the expected net revenue of a given task, your "before cost" total. This means it uses Time Allocated against your Labour $ Out Rate, as opposed to Time Spent.

Spent $ is looking at the portion of the Total $ field that has been incurred thus far. Because of this, we are measuring using the same rate (the Labour $ Out) however, we measure this against the Time Spent as opposed to Time Allocated.

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