Please help, I'm not able to get my job cost report to show labor. I have filled out all my time cards and they all have jobs asigned to thier time. My labor is not even showing up in my employee summary. Thanks
You will need to actually process the payroll before there is an expense to show. The hours will be in the system from the weekly timesheet entries, but there is no dollar cost in QuickBooks until the payroll for that employee is actually processed.
We do not do our own payroll, but need to enter a charge rate for each employee. I found where to enter it, (under billing rate level), but I can't find a report that applies the rate for job costing. It looks like this rate is only used for invoicing. Is there any way to accurately track job costs if we are not doing our own payroll? Thanks.
Unfortunately, without creating a check to the employee in QuickBooks, there won't be an expense to flow to the job cost reports. Assisted Payroll from Intuit would allow the checks to be created in QuickBooks while providing the oversight of a payroll service. It sounds as if you have another non-Intuit solution.
In that case, the job costs will have to be created with the entry of the payroll cost from the transactions with the payroll service. So, whether that payroll cost is entered by check, journal entry, or whatever, it will have to be computed and broken down into a multi-line transaction. Each line of the transaction will have to reference a certain job and that will create the labor expense that will flow to the job cost reports.
