Work types and billing

A work type is the billing category a class is paid under, and it is the foundation the rest of your pay setup sits on. Every class on your timetable belongs to a work type, and the work type decides how pay is worked out for that class. Rates are then set per work type, so getting your list of work types right is what makes rates simple.

You manage them from Work types in the sidebar, where each one is a row you can add or edit. A work type has a name, such as Group class, Private lesson, or Rehearsal, and a billing type that sets how it turns into money.

There are three billing models. Hourly pays by the length of the class multiplied by the rate, so a longer class earns more; this is the most common choice and the one InstructorHUB calculates automatically from your timetable. Per class pays a fixed fee each time the class runs, regardless of how long it lasts, which suits a set price for a private lesson or a workshop. Flat rate pays a set amount for a period rather than per occurrence, for a standing arrangement that does not vary with the schedule.

Billing type belongs to the work type, not the person. A separate setting, a staff member's pay structure, decides whether an individual is paid per session at all or sits on a fixed salary line instead. So a salaried teacher and an hourly teacher can both work an hourly work type; the work type frames the class, and the person's structure decides how that flows into their pay. There is more on the salary line in Add a staff member.

Keep your work types to the real categories your studio bills under rather than one per class. A handful that map cleanly to how you pay, each with a studio default rate, covers most timetables and keeps the rate manager short. Once your work types are set, the next step is the rates that hang off them, in Set default and custom rates, and how the two combine to produce a number is covered in How a pay number is calculated.