Holidays and employee costs: where the numbers come from
Two numbers quietly shape a lot of what Current shows you: the company holiday calendar (which drives every schedule) and each employee's internal hourly cost (which drives every margin figure). Both can come from two places — synced from your PSA, or entered by hand in Current — and it matters which one applies where. Holidays sync from Autotask only; cost rates sync from all three PSAs. Here's exactly how each works, verified against the code, not guessed.
Holidays: one calendar per tenant, two ways to fill it
Current keeps a single company-wide holiday calendar shared by every project — this is what "weekends + holidays skipped" on the Timeline actually skips. It's filled two ways, and both can be in play at once:
- +Synced from Autotask — Current's regular sync pulls Autotask's company holiday set and adds those dates automatically. These rows are tagged as coming from Autotask. (Autotask workspaces only.)
- +Added manually — a Tenant Admin can add a one-off holiday (a date plus an optional name) directly in Current, for anything your PSA doesn't have — or, on ConnectWise, for the whole calendar.
- 1Open the Holidays pageAdmin-only page. It shows a running count, e.g. "14 holidays — 10 synced from Autotask, 4 added here."
- 2Review each entryA synced holiday shows an Autotask badge (hover it: "reappears on next sync if deleted here"). A manual one shows a pen icon instead.
- 3Add a manual holidayPick a date, optionally name it, and save. It applies to every project in the tenant immediately.
- 4Delete carefullyDeleting a synced holiday works, but it comes back on the next Autotask sync — delete it in Autotask instead if you want it gone for good.
Employee cost: per-person, from two sources, admin-only
Every person can have an internal hourly cost — what they actually cost the business per hour, as opposed to what you bill a partner. Current uses it in two places: the Profitability report under Reports, and the cost-to-serve math behind the renewal dossier's private profitability section. The rate itself never appears anywhere a project manager, engineer, account executive, or partner viewer can see.
- +Synced from your PSA — if a person is linked to a PSA resource, their cost is pulled in automatically on every people sync: Autotask's Internal Cost (Burden Rate), ConnectWise's member hourlyCost, HaloPSA's agent costprice. Current shows this as the source and won't let you hand-edit it here, because the next sync would just overwrite your edit — Settings → Cost rates is the one place an override sticks. Note that Autotask only sends across resources marked Active, so a technician who has left stops being refreshed.
- +Entered manually — for anyone your PSA holds no cost for, a Tenant Admin can enter a rate by hand, and no sync overwrites it.
- +Mirrored but not listed — technicians with no Current login never appear in this list, because it is built from your Current people. Their PSA rate is still mirrored, admin-only, and it prices their hours in the renewal dossier's account profitability section.
What holidays and costs are each used for
| Data | Drives | Doesn't drive |
|---|---|---|
| Holiday calendar | Task scheduling and critical-path dates on the Timeline, Dependency map, What-if, and the Schedule grid. Recognizing an Autotask date that rolled forward off a holiday, so Current adopts Autotask's stored date instead of logging a conflict. Also, on a workspace measuring response times on working hours, the average first response and average resolution time on your dashboards: a holiday is not a working day, so it is left out of both | Cost, margin, or budget figures. Nor SLA compliance, which is your PSA's own verdict against its own due times and its own calendar |
| Employee hourly cost | The Profitability / Margin lens on Reports (revenue minus internal labor cost, by project), and the cost to serve behind the renewal dossier's account profitability section | Scheduling, capacity, or the standard project budget/burn view — those use billable rate and hours, not cost |
See "PTO and availability-aware scheduling in the Timeline" for how the holiday calendar interacts with individual PTO, and see "Roles & permissions: who sees what" for the full admin-only visibility list.
