Configure Labor Rates for an Employee
Rates is used to specify an employee's pay rate for various types of work so that labor can be easily added to work orders or service requests.
NOTE: From this tab, you can also enter pay rates for custom cost codes you have configured on the Labor Rates page. Use Dynamic Cost Codes must be enabled in Preferences to do this. For more information, see Preferences.
- From either the home page or General tab, click Employees.
- Click Rates tab from the Details panel of an employee.
- Enter the employee rates in the Hourly, Benefits, Holiday, Other, Overhead, Overtime, Shift Differential, and Stand By fields. These fields display unless you are using dynamic cost codes, in which case whatever rate types have been defined under Labor Rates are what appear here. See Configure Dynamic Cost Codes for more information.
Rates can be set as either a percentage or a fixed amount.
- From the drop-down list next to each field, select either % or Fixed and enter the rate by either using the arrow keys or clicking in the field and manually typing a number.
For an explanation of the fields from on the Rates tab, see Labor Rates Fields.
You can edit labor rates for all employees on the Labor Rates page. See Configure Labor Rates for Multiple Employees for more information.
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