I have a question regarding time tracking

[Antun Štefančić]

As I understand you can only log hours on particular issues inside a project, but there is no way of seeing the total amount of hours someone worked in a month for example. And as I further understand I would need to get an add-on to do so? So what would be the best add-on's to recommend for keeping track of working hours and all what goes with it ( labor cost, reports etc.)

[Dave Rosenlund _Trundl_]

Hi, @Antun Štefančić.  You are right.  In fact everything about Jira is oriented around project management. It's both a blessing and a curse, IMO.  (More of a blessing though.)

What you are describing fall broadly under the heading of Project Portfolio Management (PPM), and specifically around time tracking and reporting that supports a PPM approach.

Others have already shared specific recommendations, but everyone's needs are different. (You and I probably drive different cars because we have different needs and different tastes.)

So, rather than tell you which PMM time tracking solution to use I'd rather show you how to search for one:

Replace my example search (the red circle and arrows) with your own criteria, as you see fit.

Hope this helps,

-dave 

[Iryna Komarnitska_SaaSJet_]

Hi @Antun Štefančić 

I want to offer you a tool for tracking costs and generating quality reports. With it, you can use the default Jira time tracker.

To track costs and generate reports, you can use an add-on such as Cost Traker for Jira Cloud, developed by my team. 

This app allows you to track time and expenses for issues, team, projects, sprint, versions, etc.

It also provides detailed reports on time spent, expenses, and labor costs.

Example of report:

[Jones Lara]

You’re right that Jira’s default time tracker doesn’t show total monthly hours or labor costs, so an add-on is usually needed for that. Tools like Tempo Timesheets or WorklogPRO can help you track hours, costs, and generate clear reports directly inside Jira.

If you prefer an external option, Workstatus also integrates with Jira and gives you automatic time tracking, monthly hour summaries, and productivity insights. It’s helpful if you want simple, accurate reporting without depending only on Jira’s built-in features.

[Fatma Uzundemir from The Starware]

Hi @Antun Štefančić  👋🏻 , 

If your goal is to understand how much time people are working over a month (or any other period), while also tracking labor costs and generating management-friendly reports, WorklogPRO could be worth considering. If you're open to 3rd-party apps, I'd recommend taking a look at WorklogPRO.

Based on your question, it sounds like you're looking for visibility not only into time logged on individual issues, but also into the total amount of time users or teams have worked during a specific period. That's exactly where WorklogPRO can help.

⏱️ With WorklogPRO, you can easily track how much time individual users, teams, or departments have spent on issues and projects across:

• Daily periods
• Weekly periods
• Monthly periods
• Sprint dates
• Any custom date range

                     

📈 The app also provides visual dashboards and charts, making it much easier to analyze workload distribution and team performance.

💰 If labor cost tracking is important, WLPC includes Billable / Cost capabilities that allow you to:

• Generate user-based cost and billing reports
• Create project-based cost reports
• Analyze labor costs at the issue, project, or user level
• Review billable vs. non-billable work
• Monitor revenue and cost balances through timesheets and reports

📊 For teams that require deeper analysis, you can create customized reports for specific users, teams, or projects. Each report comes with its own dedicated charts, graphs, and dashboards, making it easy to visualize the underlying data.



Additionally, WorklogPRO offers:

📤 Exportable reports (Excel / CSV)

👥 Advanced working-hour and holiday management:

• Assign user-specific working hours
• Assign user-specific holiday schemes
• Generate timesheets based on those configurations
• View timesheets in a user-focused row-based format

📈 Detailed visibility of logged time per user, issue, and project

🔐 Permission-based access, allowing team leads and managers to access comprehensive reporting without exposing unnecessary data

📆 Weekly, monthly, and custom period reporting

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🍀 To learn more, feel free to contact me or explore the application through the Atlassian Marketplace link I’ve provided. 🍀

Disclaimer:I work for the vendor who developed this application.

[Anton from JetHeads_io]

Hey @Antun Štefančić! 👋

Yeah, native Jira only shows time logged per issue — there's no built-in way to see total hours someone worked across a month or across projects. 

JetTime (a third-party Jira app) handles this — you can generate reports showing total hours per user over any period (e.g., a full month), broken down by user, project, or any other field. It also covers labor cost tracking via custom financial fields.

JetTime features:

• Time tracking & timesheets with improved Log Work UI and timers
• Reports with total hours per user, filtered by date range, project, or any field
• Cost tracking with custom financial fields for labor costs
• Custom metrics (mileage, materials, activity types, etc.)
• PDF & Excel export
• Runs fully on Atlassian infrastructure, so data stays inside Atlassian Cloud

👉 JetTime on the Atlassian Marketplace

— Anton, JetTime founder

[Sushant Verma]

Hi @Antun Štefančić 

Welcome to the community!

There are some apps that you can use to achieve this goal:

Sum-up for JIRA 

Timesheet Reports and Gadgets 

Those gadgets can display the sum of the issues, Original estimate and Time Spent, or even the same details for each issue and also they are completely customizable, so you can hide or display columns (fields) as you want.

Regards,
Sushant Verma

[Kim Korton]

I actually have the same issue, because I’ve also been trying to figure out a proper way to track total monthly working hours per person rather than just logging time against individual issues. Right now I can see that time can be recorded per task inside a project, but getting a clean consolidated view (like total hours per user per month, plus cost breakdowns) isn’t straightforward in the standard setup. It feels like the base system is focused more on issue-level tracking than overall workforce reporting, which makes things harder when you’re trying to do payroll or monthly analysis.

I’m also seeing that, in my case, it probably does require some kind of add-on or reporting extension to get proper timesheets, labor cost calculations, and monthly summaries. Tools like Jira don’t really give full financial/time aggregation out of the box, so I’ve been looking at add-ons like Tempo-style timesheets or similar reporting tools that can generate weekly/monthly summaries and cost reports. It actually reminds me a bit of managing a rent Bentley in Dubai service, where tracking individual trips alone isn’t enough you also need consolidated reporting across drivers, vehicle usage, hourly bookings, maintenance costs, and monthly revenue summaries. You can check more about it here https://rentbentleyindubai.com/. From what I’ve read, solutions like Tempo Timesheets or other reporting plugins are usually what people rely on for exactly this kind of requirement, but I’m still exploring what works best in practice since I also have the same issue.

[Katarina Harbuzava _ Planyway]

Hi @Antun Štefančić ! :)

You can try Planyway plugin for tracking working hours monthly/weekly/daily. There you will be able to check tracked time via reports. Although Planyway has no labour costs calculator and budgets, it is perfect for resource planning and workflow management, checking workloads by team members, and getting a detailed overview of your team's time. Btw, it's free for teams of up to 10 members. 

[Gracjan Wesołowski _HeroCoders_]

Hi @Antun Štefančić 

you might consider using time tracking apps that in most cases have a customizable report of tracked time on issues.

I can recommend our Clockwork Automated Time Tracking & Timesheets Free app, which offers you the possibility to create timesheets and reports that can be configured in various ways using break-down, and filtering options. It also allows you to export the data to excel files. Please find below the sample of how the timesheet looks like:

Feel free to install the app and contact us. We are happy to help you with the configuration.

Best Regards,

Gracjan