Plenty of engineers aren't on a wage or a day rate. They get a cut of every job they do: 30% of a £1,000 gully change is £300, whatever it took.
Tell Mucka that once, and every job they do works out its own profit.
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 share of each job.
- Put in their percentage, like 30.
- Choose whether it's of the whole job or of what's left after materials. Both are common, so pick the one you actually pay.
- Save.
To stop it, choose Not set and save. Somebody on a wage instead? Choose A wage or salary: see how that's costed. A person is on one or the other, never both.
You need to be able to manage the team and see job costs to set it. Engineers can't see anybody's percentage, their own included.
What it does to a job
Open any job they're assigned to, and the money at the top now has their wages in it:
Invoiced £1,000.00
Costs so far £400.00
Dave on 30% of the job · 1 bought
£600.00 left on the invoice after costs and wages · 60%
That's £1,000 earned, £100 of materials and Dave's £300. Before the job's invoiced it works from the accepted quote and says so.
If your business is VAT registered, Mucka works from the invoice before VAT, because the VAT isn't yours. It takes the percentage of that too.
Things worth knowing
It goes on whoever the job is assigned to. Reassign the job and the share follows the new engineer. If somebody else is helping on the job, their pay has to be known too (a share, a wage or hours), or the job won't show a margin.
Logged hours win. If somebody has logged hours against a job in Timesheets, those are the wages for that job, and the percentage isn't added on top.
It never goes below zero. On a share after materials, if the parts on a job cost more than it earned, their share is nothing, not a negative.
It uses their percentage as it is today. If you change somebody from 30% to 35%, their earlier jobs show 35% too, for now.
Reports → Engineers uses it as well. Each person's month shows the margin on their jobs once their share is set.
A project's total doesn't include shares. A site is usually invoiced as a whole, so there's no single job's earnings to take a cut of. Each day's own job still shows it.