About overhead groups

You can use overhead groups to set up specific overhead project, phase, activity, or account information so that it defaults onto employee timesheets, simplifying timesheet entry. If you want to track indirect timeThe dollar amount of wages and salaries not charged to projects, including wages of administrative, technical, and professional employees that are not billed to projects. It also includes all paid leave. on employee utilizationAn industry standard used to help track and manage time on an individual level. With Ajera, you can track employee productivity using the Employee Utilization report. The report contains each employee's billable and nonbillable hours and cost. Information appears based on how you classify your labor activities into billable and nonbillable categories. time reports, you need to use overhead groups.

When you set up an overhead group, you create overhead group items. These items appear in the Overhead area of an employee's timesheet. When you create an overhead group item, you link a pay to it. The pay determines the way Ajera reports the time on an employee's paycheck stub (or if using a payroll service, in the payroll file).

You choose which items appear on an employee's timesheet by assigning the employee to an overhead group.

See also

Setting up overhead groups