How do I see what my labour is costing?

1. First, set your pay grades in Company admin, under Rates, then Pay grades. Give the grade in your own words (3rd year apprentice, Foreman, Labour hire) and its cost an hour.
2. A grade is finer than a trade role on purpose, because you do not pay a first year and a fourth year the same.
3. Then put each person on a grade, on their row under Your crew on the Schedule tab. You choose the grade. You do not type it. So a person can only be on a grade you priced, and a spelling mistake never leaves somebody unpriced.
4. If somebody is paid differently from their grade, give them their own rate under Paid differently from their grade, beneath Pay grades on the same screen. Their own rate comes before their grade's rate.
5. Each rate has the day it starts. If you give somebody a rise, last quarter does not change. YourCA prices every hour at the rate that applied on the day it was worked.
6. Open Reports and press Labour. It has four readings: By job, By person, Hours worked and Hours needing a look.
7. Set the dates once in the dropdown at the right end of that row. All four readings use that range.
8. By job is the bar chart of what each job cost you in labour, largest first, with the hours beside it. By person is the same reading split by person, with the rate each of them is on today.
9. Only a person whose role runs pay sees the rates and every labour cost on the reading. On a job that one person worked, the cost would show their rate. Anybody else sees Withheld instead, the charts show hours, and the filter to one person is not offered.
10. YourCA names anything it could not price. It lists a person with no rate, so you can set one. It counts a shift that nobody clocked off separately, because it needs a finish time, not a rate. That line is under the figures on every reading that shows a total.
11. To see one job, press the job's own name beside All projects on the band. On a phone, it is in the panel that the Tabs button opens.
12. With one job there is no split by job, because there is only one. The reading across the business spans every job at once. No spreadsheet gives you that.
13. To narrow the reading without leaving it, use the row above it. Type a job or a person and press the one you mean. All four readings follow it, with their figures.
14. The lists offer only jobs and people with hours in the range. A pick never shortens the list, so you can add a second one. Show everything clears it.
15. Hours needing a look is the fourth reading, and the only one you act on. It groups by job the rostered days that nobody checked.
16. Open a job to read its days and mark them off. That changes no hours. It records that somebody looked.
17. Download, at the right of the row of four readings, gives you all four readings as one document on your own letterhead. It has the position, the split by job, the split by person and the week by week figures. It names the shifts that nothing could price, and does not hide them in the total.
18. It shows the range and the narrowing you were looking at. It says on its face that it is an estimate and never payroll.