Use this screen to enter the average labor rate of the Project Labor Categories (PLCs) for use in the budgeting screens. Rates entered here will default to the PLC Budgets By Period (Projects » Budgeting and ETC » Period Budgets) and the PLC Total Budget (Projects » Budgeting and ETC » Total Budgets) screens when you enter a line using the specific PLC. The system will multiply these rates by the employee or vendor hours to arrive at the employee or vendor amounts.
When you enter this screen, you must specify which PLCs you want by using Subquery. The PLCs available for selection must have been entered in the Set Up Project Labor Categories (PLC) screen (Projects » Project Setup » Project Labor). You cannot add new lines or delete existing ones; for this, you must use the Set Up Project Labor Categories (PLC) screen. You can change only the Rate column.
Complete this screen before using the PLC Budgets By Period or the PLC Total Budget screens. When you access those screens, the rates will default in and the system will automatically calculate the employee or vendor amounts when you enter the number of hours. If you choose not to complete this screen, the rates will not default in. If you enter the rates directly into the PLC Budgets By Period or the PLC Total Budget screen, the rate times hours calculation will still occur.
This non-editable field displays the labor category entered in the Set Up Project Labor Categories (PLC) screen (Projects » Project Setup » Project Labor).
This non-editable field displays the PLC description entered in the Set Up Project Labor Categories (PLC) screen (Projects » Project Setup » Project Labor).
Enter the average labor rate of the PLC code. There is no default available from the Set Up Project Labor Categories (PLC) screen (Projects » Project Setup » Project Labor) and no changes to this screen will affect the data in the Billing Rates subtask of the Set Up Project Labor Categories screen.
Only new rows entered in the PLC Budgets By Period (Projects » Budgeting and ETC » Period Budgets) or the PLC Total Budget (Projects » Budgeting and ETC » Total Budgets) screens will be affected by a change to the rate. All previously entered rows will be unchanged, and new rows will be calculated using the new rate.
Changes to this screen update the BILL_LAB_CAT table.