Capacity Module
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The Employee Event is a core input for adding individual or placeholder team members to your model. Use it to track non-financial data like employee roles, skills, and availability — as well as financial details like salaries or costs per resource.
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It acts as a starting point for many downstream calculations, including capacity planning, resource forecasting, and payroll estimates. Whether you’re modeling real team members or generic roles, this Event gives you control over who’s available, when, and how they impact your business operations and finances.
If you’re planning a project and know you’ll need 2 site superintendents working 40 hours per week, you can use the Employee Event to add them into your model. You can set their role, assign a salary or hourly rate, and define how long they’ll be active — which then drives downstream calculations like total labor costs, resource availability, and project capacity.
Use this when you’re assigning a real, known employee to the role — ideal for modeling actual team members with set start dates, salaries, and work hours.
Use this for planning or forecasting when the exact person isn’t known yet — great for staffing projections, budgeting, or modeling future hiring needs.
This setting is off by default. Toggle it on to display financial data.
Hourly:
Use this when employees are paid based on hours worked. You can enter an hourly rate and average weekly hours to calculate total costs over time.
Salary:
Use this when employees are paid a fixed amount on a recurring basis — like monthly or annually — regardless of hours worked. Ideal for full-time roles.
Under Advanced Settings:
These section refines how an employee contributes to your team’s overall capacity.
The Contribution Percentage represents how much of their time is spent on billable work.
The Skill Multiplier adjusts for efficiency — so a senior employee might contribute 1.5x more output than a junior one.
Combined, they let you model real-world productivity more accurately by generating an adjusted headcount based on both time and skill.
