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How To See Project Costs By Employee

Workyard's flexible reporting allows you to generate a report breaking down your project level labor costs by employee in real time.

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Written by Christina Kao
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Overview

This report allows you to:

  • View labor costs by employee across projects

  • Analyze hours and pay by project, worksite, and cost code

  • Export a detailed Excel report for payroll, billing, or job costing review

Note: Job Costing Reports must be generated from the Workyard web app. They are not available on mobile.


Generate a Project Cost Report by Employee (Web)

Step 1: Go to Job Costing Reports

  1. Log in to Workyard from a web browser.

  2. Click Reports on the left-hand navigation.


Step 2: Click Export

At the top of the Job Costing Reports page, click Export.


Step 3: Fill out the export options

In the export window, configure your report:

  • Date Range
    Select the timeframe you want to report on.

  • Team Members

    • Leave blank to include all team members, or

    • Select specific employees if you want to narrow the report.

  • Project / Project Groups (optional)
    Filter to one project or project group if needed.

  • Group By
    Select Group by employee
    (You may also choose “Group by employee and project” if you want further breakdown.)

Once complete, click Generate Report.


Step 4: Review your Excel report

Open the downloaded Excel file to review your data.

The report includes details such as:

  • Employee name

  • Project and customer

  • Worksite

  • Cost codes

  • Regular, overtime, and double time hours

  • Labor pay and totals

Each employee also includes a TOTAL row to make review and reconciliation easier.


Tips & Best Practices

  • Use pay-period date ranges when reconciling payroll.

  • If totals appear lower than expected, confirm time entries were assigned to the correct project and cost code.

  • “Unallocated” rows indicate time that was not assigned to a project.

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