How do I calculate an average per hour field in an Access report?

[Guest]

I have a field that calculates how much time a job took, and a field that
shows how much is being paid for that job. I would like to create a field
that shows the average per hour that was made on that job. I beleive the
problem is that I am trying to divide a currency data type by a time data
type. Is this possible to do.
Thanks for any help, I'm very new at using MS Access. I'm using the 2002
version.

 

[Larry Linson]

As you haven't said what data you have and how you are keeping it, it would
be really difficult to make a suggestion. If your "suspicion" is true, then
that would be a problem.

If you have a start time and an end time for the work, you should be using
the DateDiff function to calculate the actual time worked, and that result
would be in a Single or Double. The Date/Time field or variable is for
recording a point in time, like 05/16/2005 08:49:16, not for recording a
number of hours (you'd want a variable that can have both an integral and
fractional part, like a Single or Double Floating Point, to hold the hours
and fractions thereof).

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP

 

[Duane Hookom]

You can divide a currency (which is a number) by a time (which is a number).
If you are using a date/time data type, you need understand that in
date/time values are stored in parts of days. .5 equals 12 hours.