We are looking for an easier way to add a flat $1 per hour for employees working night shift. Currently, we are manually overriding the hourly rate in PR Timecard Entry by adding $1 to their normal wage rate for the hours worked on the night shift. All employees are paid at different rates so we can't add a shift rate to a craft/class code. It is my understanding that differentials can only be done based on percentages today.
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| Company | Parsons |
| Job Title / Role | Accountant |
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It would be fabulous if we could do this. We pay a flat 5.00 per hour premium for second shift for foreman and craft supers. Everyone has a different rate. Currently there is no way to set this up.
How have you guys set up shift differential? We pay an extra 50 cent an hour for each employee that works at night-- this is not job based or craft based. Any idea how to get this set up so when they pick a particular "shift" in the app they are automatically paid an additional 50 cent an hour?
Shift differentials are such a common practice that it is extremely difficult to believe these were not contemplated when Vista Payroll was designed.
We use a separate Earnings Code, with an inflated factor (ours is 1.15 for what we call Shift Differential).
I have a similar problem where some (not all) employees on a specific project get add-on wages. The Craft/Class Template comes SOOO close to making this work except there is no way to exclude specific employees that do not get the add-on. It's all or none and runs in the background. By adding an Employee specific add-on function/override to the template, we would have greater flexibility and less manual entry or work-arounds. I currently use the template for PW projects where there are standard add-ons that apply to all employees in the classification and it works great. Just need this final tweak to make it really powerful. Thanks.
You may be able to do this under PR Craft Classes under variable earnings. I've never used it, but from what it looks like, you could do it that way