The labor hours screen is used to record the hours worked by employees. The data entered with this screen is read by the payroll calculation program to compute hours worked and gross pay.
This screen is used specifically to enter labor hours for hourly employees. Regular hours for salaried employees are usually not entered here (refer to the field description for Hours Worked for a description of when regular hours for salaried employees should be entered on this screen). The payroll calculation program uses the annual salary entered in the employee file to calculate the gross pay for salaried employees. This screen is used for salaried employees to record overtime hours and labor charges.
Select option Labor hours from theData Entry, Payroll menu. to display the following screen:
This screen contains fields for computing and expensing actual payroll costs and fields for computing and charging labor distribution (Job Costing System only).