How do I register farm workers and account for their wages?

Labour is the largest cost line on most farms, and it is also the least recorded.

Workers

1. Open Farm Management → Workers — Figure 1.
2. Add a worker with their name and phone, and set the daily or hourly wage.
3. From the same menu you also register farm managers, veterinarians and agricultural engineers.

Worker wages

1. Open Worker Wages — Figure 2 — and add a record for each working day.
2. Choose the farm, the section and the worker, and enter the date, the hours and the work done.
3. The amount is computed from the worker’s rate and stays pending until you pay it.
4. On payment the wages are posted to accounting and charged to the farm the work was done on.

Notes

• Record a working day on the day itself; reconstructing a whole month from memory gives you numbers that are no use.
• Charge the wage to the right section; that is what gives the farm profitability report its meaning.
• A worker with no recorded wage is a wage paid out of your pocket that you never see in the cost.