4. How do I set a person's target hours?
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"How do I set a person's target hours?"
A person's target hours sets how many hours, each day, a person usually works.
To change a person's target hours:
- First, select the person on: MenuPeople
- Next, go to their PayPay settings
- Then scroll down to the "Target hours per week" heading.
- And you'll see the person's current target hours a day, and total hours a week.
- To change the person's target hours, drag one of the blue sliders.
- You'll see that all the Monday to Friday sliders have moved together, and that the total hours per week has updated.
- To change each day individually, turn off: Move weekday sliders together
- Now you can drag each slider individually.
- And again, the total hours per week has updated.
- And finally, once you tap Save, the person's target hours are ready to be applied to their next payday.
Keep in mind that:
- When you invite a new person, by default the new person's target hours are set. The target hours are set to 8 hours a day, Monday to Friday, or 40 hours a week.
- Target hours matter, for all employees, because target hours are used to calculate time off.
- If, for example, a person's target hours was 8 hours on Monday, and 4 hours on Tuesday.
- If the person took Monday off, the person would get 8 hours of time off.
- However, if the person took Tuesday off, the person would only get 4 hours of time off, because of their target hours.
Also remember that:
- Target hours are used for hourly paid people, when calculating estimates on pay and taxes.
- Also, target hours are occasionally used by a very small number of advanced repeat payables that're tied to an estimate of a person's weekly working hours.
And that's it! That's everything you need to know about setting a person's target hours!
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