If the cost item type is labor, you can use a labor calculator to calculate and add the cost of fringes to the base labor cost. The labor calculator uses fringe tables to group individual fringes and applies selected fringe tables to the base labor cost. All fringes in the selected fringe tables are applied to the hourly rate to create the burdened rate.

The labor calculator supports multiple fringe tables per cost item. This allows you to define workman’s comp tables by state, for example, and append them to other tables such as insurance and health benefits.

You can create multiple fringe benefits per table. A fringe benefit is either a percentage of the hourly rate that is added to the hourly rate or a fixed amount that is added to the hourly rate. You can include existing fringe benefits in a fringe table. If you create a fringe table or a fringe benefit in the Estimate tab, the fringe table or fringe benefit are only available in that estimate. If you create a fringe table or a fringe benefit in the Catalog tab, when you add a cost item that uses the fringe table or fringe benefit to the estimate, the fringe table or fringe benefit is available to all labor cost items in the Estimate tab.

When you edit a fringe, you will need to recalculate the estimate or catalog to apply that change to all labor items that use that fringe.