Labor sales

The Labor report provides a detailed listing of technician's  services for any specified period of time.  This report is usually used for payroll purposes.

Shops using The Accountant Payroll  module will find the information is automatically derived.  However,  this report does provide sufficient detail to give the technicians a breakdown of the jobs they have completed, and their earnings.

In  many shops, the technicians maintain a log of their work, and this  report is compared against the log to verify that all work has been  entered, billed, and paid.

When the report is run, there is a separate page, or pages, for each  technician.  The system will generate reports based on who has work  entered during the period, and not necessarily who has been entered  into the job costing employee chart, or payroll setup.

The report details each service code, its workorder, date, cost,  charge, and units (time).

The cost is based on the figure provided  in the Technician cost listing, as created in the Setup menu.  A total of all costs,  charges, and units is then printed.

The system will generate a report for each name, or technician code, found in the labor  descriptions.

This report is particularly useful when evaluating earnings for  possible raises.  If a technician accomplishes 40  units of work in  a week, the earnings are average.  Below that means that  productivity is not particularly good, and above that, without  comebacks, means that the technician is displaying significant  expertise.

When comparing employees' performance, it is easy to  make fair, and equitable, decisions regarding pay standards, raises,  and bonuses.  One incentive type of pay is the monthly bonus.  Using this report,  one could evaluate all technicians performance in the month.  By  using the formula:

Bonus $ / Total units

the money could be  divided easily among the employees based on the work they had  actually accomplished, and consequently the amount they had  contributed, toward the profit.