The Budget

Manager Guide

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R2025.2.1
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2025-12-01
The Budget

Dayforce constructs the budget for your location primarily from data that’s already imported into the application. To create a labor budget, you can use a variety of different targets. The data in Dayforce depends on the targets that your organization uses.

The following diagram demonstrates how the budgeting process uses sales, average hourly rate (AHR), and wage as a percentage of sales (wage %) to derive the labor budget in dollars and hours:

Budgeting Process flow diagram.