You log hours against a job so you know what to pay people. The other half of that is knowing what the job cost you — and on a big one, whether it was worth having.
Once Timesheets is on and hours are going in against jobs, two places tell you.
On the job
Open any job and there's a Labour section: the total, then a line per person with what they put in and what it came to.
Labour £480.00
2 days and 8 hours · 3 people
Hayden Owen 1 day £220.00
Chris Jones 8 hours £160.00
Craig Davies 1 day · 4 hours waiting £100.00
It only shows up when somebody has actually logged hours against that job. Most jobs never will, and an empty "Labour — £0.00" on every single one is just something to scroll past.
On the project
A project adds up every day booked on it, the same way — so a new-build you've been on for two months gives you one figure for the whole site, and who's been on it.
You'll see something like "£4,320 · 14 days and 22 hours · over 9 days on site". Those last two are different numbers on purpose: five people on one Tuesday is one day on site and five days of labour.
Ask for it instead if that's quicker:
what has Morfa Nefyn cost me in labour
Hours you haven't approved aren't in the total
This is the important bit. Mucka shows the approved figure, and names anything still waiting underneath it:
2 days still waiting to be approved, so they're not in the total yet.
That's because an entry only gets a price when you approve it — that's what approving does, and it's what stops a rate change next month rewriting what you already agreed to pay for last month. Until then the hours are real and the money isn't agreed, so putting them in the total would give you a number that disagrees with what you actually owe.
Things worth knowing
This is what you PAY, not what you charge. It's the hourly or day rate on each person's record. It's got nothing to do with your price list or what's on the customer's quote.
Not everyone sees it. You need permission to see everyone's hours. An engineer who can open the job he worked on still won't see what the subbie next to him costs you — which is usually how you'd want it.
There's no margin figure, on purpose. Mucka won't tell you what you made on a job, because most projects haven't got a quote attached and a profit number worked out against nothing isn't worth having. Attach the quote to the project and both figures sit on the same page for you to read together.
If somebody's on a day rate, put their days in through "Fill in the week". Adding hours with a start and finish time prices from an hourly rate, so a subbie who's only got a day rate on file will save fine and then can't be approved. Mucka warns you at the time now, but the week grid is the surface built for day rates.