If youfre managing projects, you must have come across Overtime Cost to represent cost of workers working beyond 5hrs of scheduled day.
For non-project professionals, the best way will be to direct enter gOvertime Workh in Entry table of Gantt chart view.
But on adding gOvertimeworkh field to Gantt Chart view MS Project do not allows end user to enter value to this field, thereby end users may feel not so good about MS Project.
As professionals, we need to understand when and where to define gOvertime Workh for a resource. In this article, we will cover up the steps involved to enter gOvertime Workh for resources.
In order to define Overtime costs for project, create a new resource with overtime cost information as follow:
Resource with Overtime Cost
In Entry Table(Standard Table for Gantt Chart View), add Cost, Actual Cost and Overtime Cost fields as follow:
Gantt Chart View Overtime work is ineditable
Now go to gResource Usageh view and add gOvertime Workh field to the view.
While in gResource Usageh view add the gOvertime Workh value
Resource Usage
Now as the project execution happens the overtime work entered in Resource Usage view reflect the gOvertime Costh field in Entry table as follow:
Entry table showing Overtime Cost
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