Set up labor rates in Talent

You can set up labor rates in Talent to track and manage estimated labor costs. You can view breakdowns of labor costs by focus area, in both Talent and the Focus app. This helps your organization understand labor costs by company priorities and supports better resource allocation decisions.

To view labor rates by focus area, you must have both Focus and Talent, and have created focus areas and imported positions.

Before you begin

Make sure you have:

• Focus and Talent enabled in your organization

• Created focus areas in Focus

• Imported positions into Talent and allocated them to focus areas

Configure and enable labor rates in Talent

1. Open your Talent site.

2. Select Settings in the top navigation and then select Talent admin settings.

3. Under Funds, select Labor Rates.

4. Set a standard labor rate. This rate is used when a position does not have a labor rate estimate in the CSV file. This field is required.

5. Set a Labor rate currency.

6. In the Bulk update section, select Download to begin creating a CSV template that contains your labor rates.

7. In the modal that displays, select which fields you want to use to set labor rates for.

8. Select Download to save a copy of your customized CSV template.

9. In the CSV file, enter the annual labor rate for each position-attribute combination, then save the file.

10. In the bulk update section, select Upload and select the completed labor rates CSV file.

11. Switch on the Enable toggle at the top of the page to enable labor rates.

Set labor cost permissions in Talent

Users need view permissions to see labor costs in Talent. Permissions are enabled through groups created in Atlassian Administration.

1. In Talent admin settings, navigate to the Permissions page.

2. In the Labor rates section, add groups that are allowed to view labor costs calculated from labor rates.

Enable labor rates in Focus

To view labor rates in Focus, you must enable a connection to Talent, and then provide group permissions for Focus users you want to allow to view labor costs. For more information, see set up Talent labor rates for Focus.