Activate a scheduled job to generate labor costs for your projects and demands

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title: Activate a scheduled job to generate labor costs for your projects and demands
description: Activate a scheduler job to automatically create labor costs for attribute-based resource assignments.
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product: Portfolio Planning
classification: portfolio-planning
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last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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breadcrumb: [Configure financials for Portfolio Planning, Configure, Portfolio Planning, Strategic Portfolio Management]
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# Activate a scheduled job to generate labor costs for your projects and demands

Activate a scheduler job to automatically create labor costs for attribute-based resource assignments.

## Before you begin

Role required: admin

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **System Definition** > **Scheduled Jobs**.

2.  Filter the name field to locate the **Generate Labor Costs** scheduled job and open it.

3.  Select **Active** and on the Scheduled Script Execution form, fill the fields.

    For a description of the field names, see [Scheduled Script Execution form to generate labor costs for projects and demands](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/portfolio-planning/gen-labor-costs-scheduled-script-form-pp.md).

4.  Select **Update** to save your changes or **Execute Now** to run the scheduled job.