Can I “globally” change the hourly wages in the costbook(s)?
Not in the costbook. However, it’s easy to adjust hourly wages in an estimate. Any time you copy and paste costs into an estimate, you see the labor rate. Change that rate once and it’s changed throughout the estimate. But making that change doesn’t affect the costbook and it doesn’t change any other estimate you’ve already completed. For more on setting your own wage rates, press F1. Click on Search. Type Wage and double click on Custom. The labor rate field does not appear in the Enter Cost Information box. This happens because the program has been instructed to only use the default wage rates. To modify this instruction, click on the menu choice Utilities then click on Options. Select the General Settings tab, and uncheck the box next to the phrase Always use costbook wage rates? then click on OK.
