Billing Labor Override Tables

Billing Labor Override tables are exception tables that let you place in a separate table those employees who are being billed at a different rate or in a different labor category for a particular project.

For example, assume that a project has By category selected in the Method field in the Labor section of the Rates tab in its billing terms. You have an employee, William Apple, who is normally billed using a project manager category (Category 2). However, for this project, he is considered a senior designer(Category 3). You can add William Apple to an override table and in the table select Category 3 (for senior designer) for him. In this example, you do not enter an override rate, because he will be billed at the standard rate for a senior designer.

Since an employee's billing rate or labor category can be determined in several places in DPS, DPS uses a rate hierarchy to decide which rate to use. For more information, see How DPS Determines Labor Billing Rates.

You can also use override tables to specify a maximum cost rate for an entire category (rather than an individual employee).