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June 30, 2025
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payroll

  • June 30, 2025
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I have several projects going on. We are in the construction business) How do I tag my employee's hours for different jobs?  I noticed when I pay an employee there is a drop down for customer job or service item.  Does anyone know step by step how to do this?

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QuickBooks Team
June 30, 2025

Configure your projects as jobs first to assign them to your employees' hours, cab21.

 

Here's a step-by-step guide you can follow:

 

  1. Go to the Customers menu and select Customer Center.
  2. Click on the New Customer & Jobs dropdown menu.
  3. Choose Add Job.
  4. Fill out the job/project details as needed.
  5. Click OK after completing the details.

 

Once done, enter employee hours and associate them with the jobs. You can use several options to enter hours, such as the Weekly Timesheet or Single Activity, to help allocate your employees' time across various jobs.

 

Refer to the steps below:

 

  1. In the Employees menu, click Enter Time.
  2. Choose either Use Weekly Timesheet or Time/Enter Single Activity.
  3. Select the specific employee from the Name dropdown menu.
  4. In the Customer: Job column, select the job to which you want to allocate the hours. This will associate those hours with the specific job.
  5. For each day the employee worked, enter the hours worked.
  6. Fill in any additional details, then click Save & Close.

 

Here are several articles detailing how to run, print, and customize payroll reports: Run payroll reports.

 

Let me know in the comments if you have further questions about this.