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Managing PM Timesheets

How Account Admins set Project Manager pay rates, review and filter all PM timesheet entries, export records to .xlsx, and track how PM time affects a project's profit margin.

The Timesheet page gives Account Admins full visibility into every Project Manager's logged hours across the account — set up how a PM gets paid, review and filter their time entries, export the data for payment processing, and see how a PM's time affects a project's profitability.

💡 Who is this for? This guide is for Account Admins who need to configure PM pay rates, monitor timesheet entries, and track how PM time affects project profitability within the wxrks platform.


Before you start: setting a PM's Hourly Rate and Currency

Before a Project Manager's logged hours can be costed correctly, their pay rate needs to be set up on their own user record. From People > Users, open the PM's profile and go to the Billing & Languages tab — for the full walkthrough of everything on that tab, see How to manage user information.

Scroll to the Timesheet section and set the Currency and Hourly Rate the PM should be paid at:

Timesheet section of the Billing and Languages tab, with Currency and Hourly Rate fields highlighted

Every project the PM is assigned to automatically uses this rate and currency when calculating the cost of their logged hours — you don't need to set anything per-project.


Viewing a PM's timesheet

From the sidebar, click People > Timesheet. As an Account Admin, use the selector at the top-left to pick which Project Manager's timesheet to view — you aren't limited to your own hours, you can review any PM's entries for any week.

Selecting a Project Manager from the Timesheet user picker, with their logged hours loading

Each row shows the entry's Type (Project, Task, Org Unit, or Other Activities), the specific Resource it's logged against, an Activity description, whether it's Billable, and the hours logged per day that week.


Filtering entries

Use the filter bar above the table to narrow down what you're looking at:

  • Type — Project, Task, Org Unit, or Other Activities

  • Org. Unit

  • Project

  • Task

  • Billable status

Combining these makes it easy to check, for example, how much billable time a PM logged against one specific project this week.


Exporting timesheet data

Click Export at the top of the Timesheet page to generate an .xlsx file of the entries currently loaded — the selected PM's entries for the current date range, narrowed by whatever filters you've applied.

Export button on the Timesheet page, highlighted

The exported file lists each entry's user, type, resource, activity, billable status, date, duration, currency, rate, and calculated cost — useful for payment processing, internal financial control, accounting reconciliation, and reporting.


How PM time affects project profitability

Once a PM has logged hours against a project, you can see how that time factors into the project's overall profitability. Open the project, go to its Tasks tab, and look at the Profit Margin card:

Profit Margin card on a project's Tasks tab, showing a live percentage

Any Account Admin or Project Manager sees this base Profit Margin figure automatically — it compares the project's total task cost against its total value. Anyone else needs the Profitability Margin permission to see it (see wxrks Permissions Reference: Permission Group to Search).

A second, more detailed figure appears in the same card — factoring the assigned PM's hourly rate into the margin — once both of the following are true:

  • The viewer holds the View Timesheet Profitability permission (see wxrks Permissions Reference: Task to User) — grant it individually or through a Permission Group.

  • The Project Manager assigned to that project has actually logged hours against it — the figure won't appear for a project with no PM hours recorded yet.

Together, this gives you a real-time comparison between the project's financial health and the administrative cost of managing it.


Related articles

How to manage user information — the full Billing & Languages tab, including rates, taxes, and payment method.
How to manage Permission Groups — grant Profitability Margin / View Timesheet Profitability to several users at once.

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