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Setting up Labor Rate Types

A labor rate type is a site setting that describes different kinds of labor costs, such as overtime or straight time. The labor rate types should match the definitions used by your site’s payroll department. Labor rate types are typically entered at the top site in the enterprise. When you enter the rate types, you can enter the actual rates for each trade at each site.

To Set up Labor Rate Types

1.	From the Site window, select the Administration menu and then Accounting Settings. The Accounting Settings dialog appears.

Tip: You can also enter labor rate types from the Labor Management Settings dialog (Administration menu, Maintenance Settings, Labor Management).

2.	Select the Labor Rate Types tab. This tab shows a list of the current labor rate types.

3.	Click New. The Labor Rate Type dialog appears.

4.	Enter the settings for this labor rate type:

Setting Name

Description

**Rate type

The name of this labor rate type. For example, rate types may include Regular time, Overtime, and Holiday pay. You can enter up to 50 characters. If this box is left blank, an error message will appear.

Time card grouping

Select the type of time cards that will be created with this labor rate type: • Regular time cards • Overtime time cards These groupings can be used to filter and sort lists of time cards.

Default cost type for expensed costs

The default cost type for this labor rate type. This is the cost type that will be used when a timecard using this labor rate type is charged to a regular maintenance work order. Note: You can only select a cost type that is available for use with labor transactions. Click Browse to select the appropriate cost type.

Default cost type for capital costs

The default cost type for capital costs for this labor rate type. This is the cost type that will be used when a timecard using this labor rate type is charged to work orders for capital projects. Note: You can only select a cost type that is available for use with labor transactions. Click Browse to select the appropriate cost type.

5.	Repeat steps 3 to 4 for each labor rate type that you need to enter.

6.	Click OK to close the Accounting Settings dialog.