V2 - Employee Cost Centre Rates

Employee cost centre rates within Chronicle is a feature will which enable you to assign a specific rate to a cost centre, that applies to a specific employee. 

This could mean for example, if an employee gets paid extra for hours worked at a specific location, you could set up a rate against that cost centre for that employee specifically which when hours are clocked against it, it will raise at the specified rate. 

Employee cost centre rates can be created or amended using the 'Settings' option in the bottom-left of the home screen menu items and then 'Employees' into 'Employee Cost Centre Rates'.

Creating & Applying Employee Cost Centre Rates

Creating Employee Cost Centre Rates

Within this screen, to begin creating a new employee cost centre rate, select the orange 'Add Employee Cost Centre Rate' or to amend an existing one, double-click on the relevant row to access its details.

Cost Centre - This will be where you'd select the specific cost centre, this must already be set-up within your environment. To add new cost centres, see this guide: V2 - Cost Centres – Chronicle Computing

Employee - This is where you'll define the specific employee that this rate applies too.

Rate - This is where you'll define the amount that will apply as the hourly rate for the select employee when hours are worked on the selected cost centre. 

With the relevant information defined, select 'Save' to finish.

Applying Employee Cost Centre Rates

In order for this functionality to work, the employee must be defined to be paid based on 'Cost Centre'. To enable this, locate the employee record that you had created the cost centre rate for and access the 'Payroll' tab.

Within the 'Payroll' tab, under the 'Pay Type' drop-down, define this as 'Cost Centre'. 

Now, whenever the employee works on the specified cost centre, the 'Rate' that was defined will pull through onto the work record and any respective reports that include cost centre work.