Entering Cost other than Standard and OT

[CK]

Hi,
Several of my resources will receive time and half on Saturdays and double
time on Holidays. If a task takes 4 weeks including 4 Saturdays, how do I
enter the time and half for those Saturdays. It doesn't seem that the cost
table would be effective for this process and adding a fixed cost does not
paint the true picture.
Thanks for your help.

 

[ProjmanZA]

Hi,
Several of my resources will receive time and half on Saturdays and double
time on Holidays.  If a task takes 4 weeks including 4 Saturdays, how do I
enter the time and half for those Saturdays.  It doesn't seem that the cost
table would be effective for this process and adding a fixed cost does not
paint the true picture.  
Thanks for your help.

CK,

Unfortunatly there is no easy fix for this age old problem. What i
could suggest you look at ia having a resource cost field that looks
at another "doublework" field that the users enter their overtime work
into (double time) then create another custom field that does this
calc "(doublework" x standardrate) x 2 then create another custom
field that adds usercost + your calculated field....

Hope you understand whaqt i am getting to ....

 

[Steve House]

Project supports only one overtime rate but it's NOT a payroll accounting
package and shouldn't be kludged into acting like one. When you explicitly
schedule or enter hours of overtime work, those hours would be costed at the
OT rate. Assuming the default calendar is your project calendar and your
resources work 8 hours pers day, your 4 week task has a duration of 20 day
or 160 hours. During that 160 hours duration you will do 160 hours of
straight time and 32 hours of overtime. If those 32 hours are not
explicitly entered into the Overtime Work fields, the tasks duration will be
192 hours, alomost 5 weeks worth of work.

HTH

 

[CK]

Thanks, Just knowing that I'm not missing anything obvious is a comfort...