Consulting work depends on clean client and project records. Everhour turns tracked hours into timesheets, reports, and billing workflows.
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Consulting time tracking starts with the work a firm needs to explain later: client, project, task, person, date, and billable status. A partner reviewing an invoice needs more than total hours. A manager needs to see whether time went to discovery, analysis, meetings, implementation, or internal coordination.
Weekly totals still matter. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, employer records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for non-exempt workers, but it does not require one specific timekeeping form or system.
Consulting firms lose margin visibility when billable and non-billable time sit in the same bucket. A useful record separates client-facing work from internal meetings, proposal writing, training, administration, and rework. That split lets a firm compare billed value with the labor actually spent on the account.
Project and task labels should match the way the firm bills and manages work. A fixed-fee strategy project may need phases, while a time-and-materials account may need task-level detail. U.S. rate and billing fields normally use U.S. dollars, which keeps invoices, payroll review, and financial reports aligned.
Consulting schedules often include travel, late client calls, and weekend work, but federal overtime stays weekly. Unless exempt, covered employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at not less than one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay.
A workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring period of seven consecutive 24-hour periods, totaling 168 hours. Hours may not be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes. The FLSA also does not require overtime premium pay solely for Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or regular rest-day work unless the weekly overtime rule is triggered or another law or agreement applies.
A one-week total works for a quick check, a small client question, or a simple review of who worked on which project. It breaks down when a consulting firm needs approvals, locked records, billing handoff, budget reporting, and a reliable history across several active clients.
Everhour gives consulting teams a managed workflow through timesheets, approvals, locked submitted time, and reporting. That matters when tracked project hours and working hours need review before payroll, billing, or management reporting. Payroll records must be preserved for at least three years, and basic time and earnings records must be preserved for at least two years.
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A consulting firm should record the person, date, client, project, task, hours worked, and billable status for each entry. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, employer records must also include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
Consulting firms should track non-billable hours separately instead of hiding them inside client totals. Internal meetings, proposals, training, administration, and rework affect utilization and project margin. Clear labels let managers see whether a client account is profitable, whether estimates are realistic, and whether staff time is shifting away from paid delivery.
Weekend consulting work does not automatically create federal overtime premium pay. The FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely for Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or regular rest-day work. Unless exempt, covered employees must receive overtime pay when hours worked exceed 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek, unless another law or agreement adds a different rule.
A consulting firm can use any complete and accurate timekeeping method under the FLSA. The federal rule does not require a specific clock, app, or form. The record still has to capture the required information for covered non-exempt workers, including daily hours worked and total hours worked each workweek.
Vague task descriptions cause the most avoidable client questions. An entry that says "client work" does not explain whether the time went to analysis, meetings, implementation, or revisions. Clear project and task labels make invoices easier to defend and give managers better evidence when reviewing scope, staffing, and budget pressure.
Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, then let users submit time for review. Managers can approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time, and submitted or approved time is locked unless it is withdrawn or rejected.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time, budgets, costs, and project data into configurable reports. Consulting managers can group and filter by project, client, member, billable time, labor costs, invoice status, and budget metrics, then export reports in CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF.
Use Everhour Timesheets to collect weekly project and working hours, review submissions, lock approved entries, and send cleaner consulting time into billing and payroll review.
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