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The Budgeted hours & costs report is one of the reports only available as part of Deputy Analytics+.
- How can this report help my organization?
- What questions can this report help me answer?
- What is in the Budgeted hours & costs report?
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FAQs on using this report
How can this report help my organization?
Use this report to compare budgeted, scheduled, and actual hours and costs, to improve labor efficiency and control spending.
What questions can this report help me answer?
- How do my actual costs and scheduled costs align with my budgets?
- Which locations and areas could be scheduled more cost-effectively?
- How can I track performance against labor budgets to reduce overspending?
What is in the Budgeted hours & costs report?
Filters
The stats, table and chart in this report will be acted upon using the built-in drop-down menus to select specific:
- Date
- Location
- Location Status
- Area
- Variance Tolerance (Note: Enter a percentage to define the maximum acceptable variance. Variances that exceed this threshold will appear in red in the report table).
There's also a checkbox filter option:
- Exclude leave
Stats
The first section of the report shows a summary for the date range and criteria set in the filters above:
- Hour variance (Budgeted / Scheduled): Shows the average of the percentage differences between scheduled and budgeted hours.
- Cost variance (Budget / Scheduled): Shows the average of the percentage differences between scheduled and budgeted cost.
- Hour variance (Scheduled / Actual): Shows the average of the percentage differences between timesheet and scheduled hours.
- Cost variance (Scheduled / Actual): Shows the average of the percentage differences between timesheet and scheduled cost.
Table of Budgeted hours & costs
A table displaying the selected locations and areas with their budgeted hours and costs data, based on the criteria selected using the filters above.
The table of Budgeted hours & costs contains the following data fields:
- Location / Area
- Budgeted Hours
- Scheduled Hours
- Budgeted / Scheduled Hour Variance
- Scheduled / Actual Hour Variance
- Actual Hours
- Budgeted Costs
- Scheduled Cost
- Budgeted Scheduled Cost Variance
- Scheduled / Actual Cost Variance
- Actual Cost
Note: In the Cost Variance and Hour Variance columns, values that exceed the Variance tolerance set in the filters above are highlighted in red.
Chart of Hours & cost analysis
A bar chart comparing budgeted, scheduled and actual hours, combined with a line chart comparing budgeted, scheduled and actual costs for the date range and other criteria selected in the filter.
If you hover your cursor over the chart, you can see the underlying data summary.
FAQs on using this report
- How do I filter this report to find the information I need?
- Can I save my filtered view for next time so I don't need to set up the same filters each time I view the report?
- How do I print, export or email this report?
- Can I schedule this report to export or email regularly? (requires Analytics+)
- How do I create a report with this information but other data included? (requires Analytics+)