Burden Rate

Good day, @ReneeE.

Let me help you track your employee's cost against your project in QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT). 

You can use the Job costing tool in QuickBooks. This way, you can see how much money you spend and make for each job. Here's how:

First, set up job-costing and create a customer job so you can track payroll expenses. Simply follow these steps:

1. Go to the Customers menu and select Customer Center.
2. Click New Customer & Job.
3. Select Add Job, then enter the job name and fill out the rest of the info.
4. Close the window and save your task by clicking OK.

After this, select the job you've created in the CUSTOMER:JOB column once run a payroll. Please check the screenshot below as your reference.

Additionally, you can run job costing reports to see how your business is doing on a job-by-job basis. Just go to Go to the Reports menu and select Jobs, Time, & Mileage.

For more details on how to use the job costs feature in QBDT, you can check this article: QuickBooks Desktop's job costing tools.

You're more than welcome to visit this thread again if need any other help with managing your payroll expenses in QuickBooks. I'll be more than happy to help. Stay well.

I have been trying to figure out how to add a burden rate to an individual job profitability summary for years, and I still haven't found a solution in Quickbooks Desktop. 

I guess I could break out an employee's work comp, employer taxes, and employer-paid benefits and spread those costs against all the jobs they were on, but who has the time for that? 

The best solution for us is to report job costs in our CRMs since they are set up to show burden. 

Renea,

Did you ever figure out the Burden rate and how to figure it out for the jobs? I'm curious because I'm trying to figure out the same thing for years and no one has been able to answer the question and I'm not a bookkeeper. So I was excited to see this thread but like everything else it never answers the question.