Labor reports
Where to see hours and labor cost, broken down by worker and by job, and how the same hours reach payroll, job costing and the profit-by-job report.
Three places labor shows up
- Reports: total labor cost and total hours across every job, plus a Labor column per job
- A job’s Costs tab: labor as a share of that job’s spend
- Payroll: hours and gross pay by worker for the period you pick
All three read the same timesheets. If a number looks wrong in one place, the entry behind it is wrong everywhere, so fix the timesheet rather than the report.
The payroll view
- Click Payroll in the sidebar.
- Use the toggle in the top bar to switch between This week and All unpaid.
- Read the table: Employee, Role, Regular, OT, Rate, Gross, Balance, Status.
- Total hours, with overtime hours called out underneath
- Gross payroll, before taxes and withholding
- Outstanding, with how much has already been paid
- Awaiting approval, a count of workers with hours not yet approved
How overtime is worked out
Within the period you are looking at, the first 40 hours for a worker are regular. Anything past 40 is overtime, paid at one and a half times their rate. Gross is regular hours at the rate, plus overtime hours at one and a half.
Gross payroll is before taxes and withholding. SiteLedger does not calculate deductions or file anything, so treat these figures as the input to your payroll process, not the output of it.
Where the labor went
Below the payroll table sits a "Where the labor went" card. It splits the same hours by job, up to the six busiest, with each job’s share as a percentage. Hours logged without a job attached are grouped as Unassigned.
This is the fastest way to answer a question like "why was last week so expensive". A job taking a bigger share of hours than you expected is usually the answer, and clicking through to that job shows you which shifts.
Checking the entries behind it
- Click Timesheets in the sidebar.
- Use the All, Pending, and This week filter chips to narrow the list.
- Open an entry to see the worker, job, times, and hours on it.
Hours count toward a job’s labor cost as soon as they are logged, whether or not they have been approved. Approving matters for payroll, and it is where a corrected hours figure comes from.