Everhour turns Linear issue work into approved time records and cost reports for engineering review.
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Use this page when Linear issue activity needs a cost record for engineering, finance, or leadership review. Linear holds the work context: issues, projects, assignees, cycles, status, labels, priority, and estimates. Everhour adds tracked time, approval workflow, cost rates, and reporting around that context.
The practical goal is a cost view that explains where engineering spend went. Payroll totals show what people were paid, but they do not show which project, issue, assignee, or cycle absorbed the work. A useful review keeps the hours tied to the same Linear work units the team already manages.
Engineering cost starts with a person-level internal cost rate. Use the rate that represents employee or contractor expense for the reporting period. Keep that cost rate separate from client-facing billable rates, because spend, revenue, and profit answer different questions. Use per-project overrides when one person's work needs a different internal rate on a specific project.
Billable and non-billable handling needs the right control. Everhour sets billing status at the project level, and specific tasks can be marked non-billable inside a billable project. Synced Linear labels remain useful report metadata, but they are not the billability control. Keep non-billable work in cost reports because it still consumes engineering capacity and labor spend.
Linear estimates are effort or size values, not clock time. Teams can use Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-Shirt estimate scales, with optional extended values. Linear uses estimate values for completion and effort statistics, and unestimated issues default to 1 estimate point unless that setting changes. Those points do not create a native conversion to hours or dollars.
Use Linear cycle graphs for scope, started issues, completed issues, success, and velocity signals. Use Everhour reports for tracked hours, cost rates, and labor cost. For an estimate versus actual cost review, compare Everhour logged cost with Everhour time estimates, while keeping Linear effort points in a separate planning view.
A one-off worksheet works for a single question: total cost on one project, labor spend for one cycle window, or cost by assignee for a narrow date range. It breaks down when every review needs approved time, dated rates, non-billable task handling, and the same exportable report structure.
At that point, Everhour becomes the managed layer around Linear work. Team members track time from embedded controls, managers review weekly project hours or working hours depending on the team's tracking setup, and approved time feeds cost reports. Each cycle can close with a consistent record of tracked issue work, rates, task billability, and project cost.
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Use an internal cost rate that represents employee or contractor expense for the reporting period. A billable rate answers a client revenue question; a cost rate answers a spend question. Store rate changes with effective dates so older project and cycle-window reports keep the rate that applied when the work happened.
Group time by the unit that changes a decision. Issue-level grouping shows where labor went. Project-level grouping shows the total investment. A cycle date range shows tracked cost during that work period. Add member, status, label, or priority only when that metadata explains ownership, work type, or delivery risk.
Yes. Non-billable work still consumes employee or contractor time, so removing it understates project cost and capacity use. Set billing status at the project level and mark specific tasks non-billable when needed, then keep both billable and non-billable time visible in cost reporting.
Linear effort points measure size or effort on the team's selected estimate scale. They are not hours, rates, or dollars, and Linear does not define a native conversion from points to cost. Use effort points for scope and velocity review, then use logged hours multiplied by cost rates for spend.
The common mistake is excluding started work, non-billable tasks, or unapproved late entries from the review period. Cost review should use the same date range, approved time rules, and task billability controls each time. Otherwise, the team compares different slices of work across cycles.
Everhour Timesheets support weekly project hours or working hours, depending on whether the team tracks task time, timecards, or both. Team members submit time for review, and admins can approve, reject, partially approve, or lock entries before payroll, billing review, or engineering cost reports use the totals.
Everhour Reporting can combine synced Linear project and issue data with cost rates, billable time, non-billable time, labor cost, and budget metrics. Admins can group reports by member, task, project, or date range and export them as CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF for cycle review.
Use approved weekly time for Linear project work, then close each cycle with locked hours that feed payroll, billing review, and reliable engineering cost review in Everhour.
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