How to Track Your Work Hours When You Have Multiple Jobs
Why the Notes app isn't enough—and a simpler way to track hours, rates and unpaid shifts.
If you work for several companies, your week looks like this: a day shift at one site, a night at another, a weekend event somewhere else. Each has its own rate, break and pay date. Keeping it in your head or in a notes file works until you're chasing a payment and can't prove the hours.
What a good hours tracker records
- Company and site
- Start time, finish time and unpaid break
- Your hourly rate for that job
- Expenses
- Payment status: waiting, paid, part-paid or overdue
Hours calculators vs a tracker
A work hours calculator gives you a number once. A tracker keeps the history, so you can answer “how many hours did I work for that company in March?” or “which shifts haven't been paid?”
Why it matters
- Getting paid correctly. You can check your payslip against your log.
- Chasing late payment. Dates, hours and rates in one place make it easier to raise a complaint.
- Knowing your weekly total. Useful for rest rules and for planning rest.
- Tax time. A clean record of income and expenses saves a lot of effort.
How Shiftaan helps
Shiftaan is a shift and earnings tracker for UK security guards. You add your companies and sites, log each shift with start, finish, break, rate and expenses, and it works out your expected pay. You can mark each shift as awaiting, paid, partial, overdue or disputed, so you always know who owes you money.
Ready to stop chasing payments? Sign up for Shiftaan and track every shift, rate and payment in one place.
