Recommended: negotiate a change order with Acme for the additional 40h of scope creep · estimated $7,400 of recoverable revenue.
Loaded labor cost from HR payroll · billable rates from contracts · live ticket time.
$184,200 revenue − $126,360 loaded cost = $57,840 gross profit•••••">$57,840 gross profit this month. Healthy overall — but Acme migration is forecasting to −15.8% and dragging the blend down. One change-order recovers it.
Every cost dollar here is computed from actual payroll (Tom's salary + benefits + 26% overhead ÷ 2,080h = $91/hr loaded) and real ticket time from the same workspace. Revenue is the bill rate set on each project ($215/hr for Tom's role) — so margin is a true number, not budget burn. Asana asks you to type rates that go stale the moment someone gets a raise. Jira has no concept of cost. Linear ditto.
For services agencies: auto-generated client invoices from time × billable rate, with margin reporting your CFO actually trusts. The combined HR+PMS bundle pays for itself in one renegotiated scope change.