How to add the wage of everyone who makes, packs or delivers

Add your own wage

Prophitable made a staff record for you when you signed up, so start with yours.

1. Go to Staff and click your name.
2. Under Compensation, choose the Wage Type:
   • Hourly: enter your Amount Per Hour.
   • Salary: enter your Amount Per Year and check Default Hours Per Week, which turns the salary into an hourly figure.
3. Check the Employer Costs. Payroll Taxes, Workers' Compensation and Unemployment Insurance start at 7.65%, 2% and 3%, which are common US rates. Change them to your own if you know them. If you pay for benefits or other costs every month, add them too.
4. Click Save.

Save won't go through until the person has a first name, a last name, a role and a wage above $0.

Add the people who work for you

1. On the Staff page, click Add Staff.
2. Enter their First Name and Last Name, pick an App Role, and fill in Compensation the same way.
3. Click Save.

Adding someone doesn't give them a login or use up a seat on your plan. You can do that later from their row with Invite to App.

What you'll see

The figure at the bottom of Compensation is Total Paid Per Hour: the wage plus your employer costs. Someone paid $18.50 an hour, at the starting rates, costs you $20.84 an hour.

Prophitable costs labor at the average Total Paid Per Hour of your active staff. A recipe step that takes 30 minutes adds half an hour at that rate.

When a wage changes, edit it and save. Your recipes, packaging and products are re-costed with the new rate.

Not paying yourself yet?

Enter what you'd pay someone else to do the work. Leave your wage out and your labor shows as $0, with a note that the labor rate isn't set, so your costs come out lower than they really are.