Time tracking for salaried workers

Most tracking tools assume an hourly rate and a client to bill. If you're on a salary you have neither, but you still have hours, goals, and bills. Tell the app you're paid a salary and it works out your hourly-equivalent, then everything else behaves the same.

Why a salaried person tracks time at all

Not to bill anyone. The useful part is seeing the relationship between the hours you give up and the money you get back — while the month is still happening, not after payroll closes. A salary hides that relationship. It arrives as one number on one day, unconnected to the twelve-hour Tuesday that produced part of it.

Common reasons people do it: watching a paycheck accrue as the day goes on, funding a savings target out of what you've actually earned so far, keeping a defensible record of overtime or unpaid extra hours, or tracking a side contract alongside the day job.

How the hourly-equivalent is derived

You give the app one figure you already have — a single paycheck, or your annual salary — and it derives the hourly-equivalent from that and your work schedule. From then on, live earnings and goal set-asides work exactly as they do for an hourly freelancer.

Because the number comes off your real schedule, it reflects how you actually work. Enter a paystub instead of an annual figure and the same derivation runs against your pay period.

Your employer, not a client

Where a freelancer sets up several clients, you set up one employer with one schedule: the hours you're expected to work, with start times, durations, and effective dates. Quick picks handle Mon–Fri in a tap. Paid time off and unpaid gaps are recorded as schedule exceptions, so a week of vacation doesn't inflate what the app thinks you earned.

If you do have a side contract, add it as a second client with its own rate and schedule. Salaried and hourly work sit side by side on the same calendar, color-coded, and roll up into the same dashboard.

Where the money goes

This is the part a salary makes hardest to see. Goals and obligations take a percentage of what you earn and set it aside as you earn it — taxes, retirement, a quarterly bill, a trip. Goals can be a straight percentage, or a target amount by a set date, in which case the app works backward to the percentage needed. You can seed tax and retirement buckets straight from a paystub.

The result is a dashboard that answers two questions at a glance: what have I made this month, and how much of it is already committed.

What you don't need

• No timer to start and stop — hours pre-fill from your schedule and you correct the exceptions
• No account, if you use the free This Device option; your pay details stay in your browser
• No invoicing, unless you want it — the invoicing side simply sits unused, or serves a side contract