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How are pay rates applied to an employee's time?

Pay rates are determined first by shift or work order overrides, then pay codes, then employee rates.

Clean Smarts gives you flexibility in determining how to apply a pay rate to an employee's time once they have clocked out of a location.

The rate that gets applied to their time is first determined by the settings of their shift. If the employee is clocking into a scheduled shift, and that shift has the checkbox marked that is labeled "Pay users the budgeted labor rate", the pay rate applied will be the amount shown in the shift settings.

If this box is not checked, we next look to the pay code. In the image below, notice that the pay code can pay at the employee's rate or it can pay at a standard rate. If there is a pay code associated with this shift and that pay code has a standard rate, that rate will be applied to the user's time.


If there is no standard rate associated with the pay code, the rate that applies will be the employee's pay rate as of the check-in date. When setting a user's pay rate, you may simply enter in a dollar-per-hour value (which is the more common method). However, you may also assign a user a "standard rate", and using standard rates is entirely optional.

Standard rates are helpful if you ever need to update pay rates for many employees at once. Standard pay rates are also independent of user roles or user modules, giving you lots of flexibility. You can set and change standard pay rates in Company Settings > Timekeeping.

 

Pay Rate Flowchart

Here is a flowchart that shows in a visual format the explanations provided above.

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