If somebody's on a wage or salary, Mucka can still put their wages on each job. You tell it what they cost you, by the year or by the hour, and it charges each job the time they spent on it.
Setting it up
Go to Settings → Team, open the person, and find How they're paid on jobs (on a phone, Paid on jobs).
- Choose A wage or salary, then By the year or By the hour.
- By the year: put in what they cost you a year, like 32,000, with everything you want counted (salary, employer's NI, pension, the van), and the hours a week they're on jobs. Hours start at 30.
- Count only time on jobs, not travel, the merchants or the yard. Those hours don't land on any job, so this way the jobs carry their whole wage.
- By the hour: put in what an hour of them on a job costs you, like 18.50. Add holiday pay and employer's NI to their rate if you want those in.
- Save.
By the year, Mucka shows what an hour of their time costs a job. It spreads the year over the weeks they actually work, which is 52 less 5.6 weeks' holiday. So £32,000 for 30 hours on jobs a week is £22.99 an hour.
A person is on one arrangement: a wage, or a share of each job. Choosing one replaces the other.
How it works out the time
For each job they're on, Mucka uses:
- The time on site, from when the job was started to when it was finished, if that's between 10 minutes and 14 hours. Anything shorter usually means Start and Complete were tapped one after the other.
- Otherwise, the time the job was booked for.
The cost line on the job says which it used, like Kelly 2h on site or Kelly 1h booked. If a job has neither, Mucka won't guess, and the job shows no margin.
Hours logged in Timesheets win on any job that has them.
Everybody on the job
If two people were on a job, both of their pay has to be known for the job to show a margin. One on a share and one on a wage is fine. A helper with nothing set means the job can't say what the wages came to, so it says that rather than showing a margin that's too good.
An owner who takes no wage
If you work on your own, or you're an owner who takes drawings rather than a wage, open yourself in Settings, Team and choose Owner, no wage on jobs. Your time on a job then counts as nothing, so your jobs show what's left after materials and anybody else's wages. That's the money that's yours.
A job still needs something costed against it, like the parts you bought, before it shows a percentage. With nothing entered it would always say 100%.
Only an owner can be set this way.
Subcontractors
Put a subcontractor's bill on the job as a cost and choose Subcontractor as the kind. Mucka counts that bill as the job's labour, so the job shows its margin even though nobody on it has a wage set.
Who can see it
Only people who can manage the team and see job costs can set it. Engineers can't see anybody's pay, their own included.