This field indicates the number of days worked for the earning entered on a detail line of the timecard, and is used for overtime calculation.
During the Calculate Payroll process, the program uses the Days Worked field:
- Together with the overtime schedule assigned to the detail line to determine if overtime has occurred. (If an overtime schedule was not assigned, Payroll does not calculate overtime and the Days Worked is irrelevant.)
- To prorate the Hours field of a timecard detail line. For each detail line, the Days Worked field determines over how many days Payroll should spread the hours. If the Days Worked is zero, Payroll uses the number of days in the pay period (which is determined by the pay period start and end dates) as the “days worked.”
The Days Worked field can be set on the timecard in the following ways.
- If a date is specified for the detail line, Payroll automatically calculates and displays an entry in the Days Worked field as:
The Hours field on the timecard divided by the employee’s Regular Hours Per Day field.
- If no date is specified for the detail line, the Days Worked defaults to zero.
- You can change the entry in the Days Worked field, depending on how you want Payroll to interpret the field.
For example, suppose you entered a date and 8 hours for an earning detail line, and Payroll calculated Days Worked to be 1. However, the 8 hours were actually worked during 2 days, so you would enter 2 in the Days Worked field.
- The field is available for reported and allocated tips only under the FLSA-Hourly overtime calculation method for employees who are paid biweekly, or less frequently.