multiple pay rates for a resource

[mariaAt2rs]

hello,

i'd really appreciate it if someone can tell me how to enter a rate system for a resource that goes like this:

Person 1 gets paid
- regular rate from monday to thursday
- time and a half on fridays
- double time on saturdays and sundays

its ok when i only have to schedule for a short term project (2 weeks) but i'm lost as to how i would do it for long term projects that goes for months.

any suggestions would be a great help!

thanks,
maria

 

[PDQBach]

Can't be (easily) done.

Project works on cummulative hours. First 40 at one rate, everything else at a different rate.

You could write a macro (a lot of work but not particularly complicated since you'd be using the timescaledata) so you can see each day how many hours are scheduled and go from there.

I think, in fairness, you're asking Project to be a timekeeping and billing system. Virtually every major project I've ever seen has a single loaded cost for a resource and that's it. A few others have two costs: a fully loaded regular time cost and a fully loaded overtime cost.

I was going to suggest having the resource in your resource table 3 times: one occurance for M-Th, one for Friday, one for Sat Sun. Every time you put the person on a task, you'd have to look at the dates and select the appropriate resource name to assign since it would depend on the day of the week.

Bob1
Bob1.5
Bob2

That's actually rather easy to do. View | Resource Usage and then filter using a Custom filter display between "bob1,bob2" (omit the quotes, naturally).

This will show you all tasks. Now ... just fiddle the dates and hours so that Bob1 has his dates on M-Th, Bob1.5 is F and Bob2 is Sat-Sun. Yeah, it's a bit of work but not a lot.