# Assign More Than One Rate to a Resource

If you assign a resource to several tasks requiring different payment schedules, you can enter different rates into that resource’s rate tables. Microsoft Project then applies the correct rate to each task the resource works on. Before you can assign additional rates to a resource, the resource must be on your resource list.

To assign more than one rate to a resource

1. On the View Bar, click Resource Sheet .
2. In the Resource Name field, select a resource, and then click Resource Information .
3. Click the Costs tab.
   The default cost rate table, A, is on top. If you don’t specify which of a resource’s cost rate tables to use for a task, Microsoft Project uses cost rate table A by default.
4. In the Standard Rate, Overtime Rate, and Per Use Cost fields, type the rates for the resource.
   You can also enter the date on which these rates become effective.
5. Click another cost rate tab, and then repeat step 4.

To apply a specific pay rate to a task assignment

1. On the View Bar, click Task Usage .
2. In the Task Name field, select the resource whose pay rate you want to change for the associated task.
3. Click Assignment Information .
4. Click the General tab.
5. In the Cost rate table box, click the rate table you want to use for this resource on this task.

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