A job's real cost needs to include additional labor costs like topups, paid rest breaks and holidays. These were previously only known when you ran payroll as they depend on the average hourly rates for each employee.
The Cost section on each job provides you with a breakdown of additional labor costs by running these payroll period calculations for you.
What does "Estimated costs" mean?
Labor costs are subject to change until the payroll period is complete. Any new job that gets added may affect the average rates for employees, and therefore the topups, paid rest breaks, etc.
Jobs that are within an incomplete payroll payroll period will have a message to let you know the costs are not yet confirmed. An example of an in-progress job is where the job is from Wednesday, today is Thursday and your payroll period is Monday-Sunday.
How it works
We assess all jobs within your payroll period window and look at each employee's average hourly rate for contract work. From this we can calculate the topups (if any), paid rest breaks (if any) holiday costs that need to be incorporated to the job cost.
The exact calculations depend on your organisation settings. You can view these in the main menu under Account > Organisation.
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