This field is available only if you use Sage 300 Project and Job Costing. This field is used only for an earning whose employee calculation method is Amount Per Hour or Percentage Of Base.
The payroll program calculates the cost of these types of earnings, based on other earnings that you defined as their calculation base earnings during earning/deduction setup.
Allocating to Jobs
If you want to allocate the cost of a Percentage Of Base (or Amount Per Hour) earning to jobs, this option determines whether you manually enter the earning on the timecard:
- If you select this option, you do not enter this type of earning on the timecard, but you do enter job information for its calculation base earnings (that is, specify the jobs to which the base earnings belong).
The program calculates the earning’s cost, and automatically allocate the cost to the jobs that you assigned to the earning’s calculation base earnings.
You will not be able to specify which jobs to allocate the Percentage Of Base (or Amount Per Hour) earning, or enter any job information for that earning.
- If you do not select this option, you must manually enter this type of earning (as well as its base earnings) on the timecard, as follows:
- Enter job information for the base earnings (that is, specify the jobs to which the base earnings belong).
- Enter the Percentage Of Base (or Amount Per Hour) earning and allocate the earning’s cost to one or more of the jobs that you have already entered for the base earnings on the same timecard.
If, for example, you allocated the base earnings to Job 1 and Job 2, then you must allocate the Percentage Of Base (or Amount Per Hour) earning only to Job 1, 2, or both. If you allocate the earning to an unrelated job, such as Job 3, the allocation will not occur.
The selection you make on the employee record becomes the default for the earning when you enter the earning on the Timecards window for the employee. You can change it on the timecard if necessary.
Note: This option is not available during manual cheque entry, because you must manually calculate and enter all amounts, and you can allocate the cost of any earning to any job of your choice.
An Example of Allocating Jobs
To illustrate how this option works, assume you have set up the following earnings:
|
Earning |
Based On |
|---|---|
|
Hourly Rate |
N/A |
|
Percentage of Base |
50% of the Hourly Rate amount |
Assume that the following hours were worked at the Hourly Rate, for a total of $125, and, using the timecard, you allocated the $125 to Jobs 1 and 2, as follows:
|
Hours worked |
Total |
Allocated to: |
|---|---|---|
|
5 hours @ $10 |
$ 50 |
Job 1 |
|
5 hours @ $15 |
$ 75 |
Job 2 |
|
Total |
$125 |
|
The Percentage of Base earning would be calculated automatically as 50% of the Hourly Rate amount.
The Percentage of Base earning would be applied as follows:
- $25.00 (50% of $50.00) is automatically applied to Job 1
- $37.50 (50% of $75.00) is automatically applied to Job 2
You will not be able to specify which jobs to allocate the Percentage of Base earning, or enter any job information for the Percentage of Base earning.
- On the timecard, you would allocate the Percentage Of Base earning to Job 1 or Job 2, or both. If you allocated the Percentage of Base earning to an unrelated job, such as Job 3, the allocation would not occur.
- If you allocated the Percentage of Base earning to Job 1, then $25.00 is applied to Job 1.
- If you allocated the Percentage of Base earning to Job 2, then $37.50 is applied to Job 2.