How Vision Determines Labor Billing Rates

Vision follows a standard process to determine what billing rate to use for the labor an employee charges to a particular project.

Basic Process and Hierarchy

Vision follows this sequence to determine the labor rate to use when billing labor for a particular employee, labor category, or labor code.

1. Vision checks the labor method on the Labor tab of the project's Billing Terms form.  If No labor billing is selected from the Labor Method field, Vision does not include labor charges on the invoice.

2. If Vision detects another labor method, Vision determines if the employee appears in a labor override table specified on the Labor tab of the project's Billing Terms form. If a table is specified and the employee appears in the table, Vision uses the rate established in the override table.

   See the table below for information about how Vision calculates the override rate.

3. If no override table is specified for the project, or the employee doesn't appear in the table, Vision determines if the labor method is Rate Table, By Category, or By Labor Code.

4. If one of the above labor methods is selected, Vision determines if the employee is associated with the table selected from the Rate Table field on the Labor tab of the project's Billing Terms form. The employee may appear in the table, or be associated via a labor category or labor code.

5. If the employee is associated with the table, Vision checks if there are multipliers specified in the Multipliers field on the Labor tab of the project's Billing Terms form.

   • If there are multipliers, Vision multiplies the rate specified in the table by the non-zero multipliers specified in the Multipliers field on the Labor tab of the project's Billing Terms form.

   • If no multipliers are specified, Vision uses the rate specified in the table.

6. If the labor method is Rate times multiplier, Vision calculates the rate by multiplying the employee's job cost rate on the Accounting tab of the Employee Info Center by the non-zero multipliers specified in the Multipliers field on the Labor tab of the project's Billing Terms form.

   If Rate times multiplier is selected and no multipliers are specified in the Multipliers field, Vision uses the job cost rate specified on the Accounting tab of the Employee Info Center.