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Below you will find a list of common data entry errors that occur with contract rate jobs, what these errors can impact, where to quickly check for them, how to correct them, and potential ways to prevent them in the future.
$0.00 Unit Rate
Downstream Impacts | $0.00 hourly rate for contract work, under pay crew who have completed units that would achieve a greater hourly rate than minimum, excessive unnecessary top ups, incorrect block costing | |
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Under Pay Crew
all workers will be topped up to their minimum rate regardless of units complete
Excessive Top Ups
Top up values be above what is actually required
Block costing calculations will be inaccurate
| Reporting → Reports → Rates Report This report includes a list of all jobs between the date ranges selected with columns for Task, Rate Type, and Unit Rate $ right next to each other. Run the report and $0.00 Unit Rates will be pretty obvious | |
How to Correct and Prevent | Add Unit Rate to Job
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Unit Rate Typos (e.g. $0.5 instead of $0.05)
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UNDER or OVER Pay Crew
Excessive Top Ups
If rate is lower - top ups will occur, butOVER or UNDER pay crew potentially, hourly rates will |
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Block Costing
Block costing calculations will be inaccurateextremely high or extremely low, excessive top ups, incorrect block costing | ||
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Filter to the Date Range
Filter to Contract Rate Type
On the Hourly rates Widget - check for any:
Peaks in the ORANGE line = MAX hourly rateDips in the YELLOW LINE = MIN hourly rate
Reporting → Reports → Rates Report This report includes a list of all jobs between the date ranges selected with columns for Task, Rate Type, and Unit Rate $ right next to each other, as well as an Average Hourly Rate Column to quickly scan for issues relating to rates set too high or too low. Run the report and compare unit rates for the same tasks |
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How to Correct and Prevent | Edit Unit Rate in the Job
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Daily Hours Split Across Multiple Jobs
Downstream Impacts | Top Up and Block Costings - depending on the contract rate calculation period for your organisation | ||
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Start and Finish Times can massively impact the average hourly rate on contract jobs, which can have the following impacts.
Top Ups:
Whether you top up daily or weekly Tātou will average contract work based on the organisation settings here.
If the ave hourly rate for the day/week is greater than or equal to minimum wage, employee earnings won’t likey be wildly impacted.
Block Costing
The unit cost calculations may show the cost per unit slightly higher than expected in a block that was allocated too much time, because there may be top ups associated.
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| Reporting → Reports → Rates Report This report includes a list of all jobs between the date ranges selected with columns for Task, Rate Type, and Unit Rate $ right next to each other, as well as an Average Hourly Rate Column to quickly scan for issues relating to rates set too high or too low. Run the report and compare unit rates for the same tasks | |
How to Correct and Prevent | Check with the person who entered the Job(s) to make sure the Start and Finish Times were entered correctly. If they:
Edit Start & Finish Times
| When creating Jobs in Tātou Field App, can wait to sync jobs until the end of the day. Sometimes when crews are completing multiple different Jobs in a day, getting the exact time for each worker accurate to their movements is difficult. Block changes should be tracked as accurately as possible within reason, but as a final sense check, waiting to sync jobs allows the supervisor to review average hourly rates for the crew on each job, and be able to correct any incorrect times that are highlighted by hourly rates that are too HIGH or to LOW. Grouping Blocks on 1 Job If crews will be doing the same task at the same rate and location for the day, multiple blocks can be added to 1 Job. This eliminates the need to track exact block change times, and instead averages the units complete and resulting hourly rate over all blocks on the 1 job. |