Cost Allocations - Split Employee Costing by Percentage

A Cost Allocation is a permanent (for as long as it is active) percentage costing split for an employee. The Home Costing set on the Employee Details page acts as a catch-all. Any remaining percentage not split off will fall to this.
E.g. in the below example this employee has a Cost Allocation of 40%. This leaves 60% to fall to the Home Costing.

Setting up Cost Allocations for employees is useful where an employee works the same percentage of hours each pay period in a different costing area to their home costing. Setting up a cost allocation means the hours do not need to be split out on a timesheet and will instead happen automatically each pay run.

Note that if your employee is working non-standard hours between departments, it is still best practice to split this costing on your timesheets.

Once you have the required employee selected, Navigate to the Employee tab > Cost Allocations screen. Right-click in the area under Employee Cost Allocations > New Cost Allocation.

Typically the "Cost percentage of all components to a cost box" is used. This will split all of an employee's earnings, however there is the option to only split certain components as well.

Select the Start Date for the costing split, the Percentage to be costed out to a different cost area and populate the cost boxes with the new costing.