Account > Users > [User ID] > Cost Other links: Demographic | Access Control | Schedule | Job Code | Proxy | Filter Sets The "Loaded hourly cost" dialog lets you enter information about what it costs your company to employ the selected user. A user's loaded cost is the hourly calculated sum of the user's salary, benefits, occupancy costs (telephone, space rental), administrative, equipment, and maintenance costs. Loaded hourly costs are used in the Projects > [Name of project] > Analysis feature to compute the profitability of a project. To enter the loaded hourly cost for a user: 1. Click on the Account tab, and then on the "Users" link. 2. Click on the User ID of the user for whom you wish to add or change information about loaded hourly costs, and then on the "Cost" link. 3. Make your additions/changes to the "Current hourly cost" and/or "Historical hourly costs" fields in the "Loaded hourly cost" dialog. 4. If you have enabled multi-currency functionality, select the currency in which you want the cost to be calculated. 5. Click on "Save." Note: The entry in the "Current hourly cost" field should be recalculated whenever there are any changes to a user's salary or benefits, or if there are company-wide changes that impact loaded costs, such as a move to new offices, equipment upgrades, etc. The old hourly cost(s) should be entered into the "Historical hourly costs" section of "Loaded hourly costs" dialog, along the old cost rate's start and end dates, to ensure an accurate accounting of a project's profitability.