I have attached a side-by-side example: P&L by Job and Job Profitability Detail, for the Same Job. And a bunch of the other reports.

I am looking for a report that shows job costs by customer job, yet including my labor. We do job tracking and assign each payroll to a job. However, its not showing on the Job Cost by Vendor and Job Summary report??? 

Hi there, @wrboutros,

Thank you for joining QuickBooks Community.

You can pull up the job costing reports provided by @qbteachmt to see the jobs you tracked for payroll, excluding the Job Cost by Job and Vendor and Job Cost by Vendor and Job Summary/Detail reports.

You can also run the Profit and Loss by Job report and double-click the amount tied up to the payroll account to view all paychecks related to the jobs. Here's how:

1.    Click the Reports menu.
2.    Scroll down to Job, Time, and Mileage.
3.    Select Profit and Loss by Job.
4.    Set the report period.

If you have additional questions about running the reports, let me know and I'm here to help.

I want to run a report, Job Cost by Job and Vendor Summary and Total Payroll cost. Our payroll is job tracking. However, when I run the report Job Cost by Job and Vendor Summary, the payroll does not show up. In the preferences, job tracking is checked in payroll. Can someone offer a suggestion?

Bill B

Payroll is part of Employees and QB payroll.

Vendor Names are on purchases for outside goods and services, which is not payroll.

"If you use Estimates. you can report on Time, as Est vs Actual, for Units. And as Costs, in Est s Actuals. Also, you have Costs to Complete reporting."

I came across this reply to someone's question.  How do you go about setting up this report in QB desktop?  I'm trying to get a report that will show me estimated hours vs actual hours used on a job.

Hello there, BSCS Finance.

Let me help you pull up the report that shows estimated hours vs. the actual hours used on a job in QuickBooks Desktop.

You can pull up the Job Estimates vs. Actual Details report. This shows how your company's estimated cost and revenues for a job and compares them for each of the items you billed.

Here's how:

1. Go to Reports.
2. Click Jobs, Time & Mileage.
3. Choose Job Estimates vs. Actual Details.

In addition, you can also customize this report to show other columns and information you wish to include in the report. Check out this article to learn more: Customize reports in QuickBooks Desktop. 

If you have any other questions about QuickBooks reports, be sure to let me know as I'm always here to help.