Q & A
Noah Gregory Applying labor rates when creating a project
Is there a way to apply a labor rate to a project when I start a new project? We work in multiple counties with multiple rates for prevailing wages, and I currently have those broken out by folder with laborer, operator, teamster.etc. Is there a way to connect my folder of labor rates per county to a job, using a custom property? I was thinking I could use a custom property "zone" like I have shown below, but I'm not sure of the formula to connect it to anything.
Yes that could work to set the zone at the project. Where did you want to store the labor rates? They could work on the Project as well as more properties. Then setup inheritance, and all these properties will show up on Takeoffs/Items too, allowing you to use formulas like:
"[Zone]" == "Broome County" ? "[Labor Rate 1]" : "[Labor Rate 2]"
to get different labor rates based on the Zone. Let me know what else you were thinking and I can help set that up too.
That's great, thank you!
Currently I have labor rates stored in templates under a folder, but it doesn't seem like I can have labor under a takeoff, inherit a custom property. Maybe my issue is that I should have labor under lists as items? I also can't seem to add items under a takeoff, so for example, if I had "laborer" as an item, I couldn't add it under one of my takeoffs.
Hope that makes sense...
Gotcha, so you will need to pick where you want to edit the labor rates. I suggest the Project level with more attributes, but you could use Templates instead and it would work the same way.