Understanding labor costs is crucial to your company's profitability. By reviewing your projected labor costs during the scheduling process, you can ensure that employee shifts align with your budget. This approach allows you to identify inefficiencies like overtime, understaffing, or overstaffing, enabling you to make adjustments in real time. By analyzing past schedules, you can pinpoint instances where labor costs exceeded the budget, providing valuable insights to optimize future schedules and avoid similar costly mistakes. In this article, we will go over everything you need to know about viewing scheduled labor costs in Connecteam.

To view labor costs, navigate to Schedule on the left sidebar and enter the relevant schedule. Make sure that you are viewing options are set to view by users and you are viewing the schedule by week.

Then, in the view options menu toggle on the labor costs options.

Now, at the top of each day, you should see the scheduled labor cost per day.

💡Tip: Scheduled labor costs can only be visible to admins who have permission to view or/and view and edit pay rates.

Now, that you know how to view your scheduled labor costs, let's go over what is taken into consideration and what is not when calculating scheduled labor costs.

Note: Published Open Shifts (shifts with can be claimed by employees) are included in the calculation AFTER being they care claimed by a user and/or approved by an admin. To learn more about open shifts click here.

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