diff --git a/src/app/dashboard/workforce/missing-rate-overview.test.tsx b/src/app/dashboard/workforce/missing-rate-overview.test.tsx
index 31a6e7c..6f21995 100644
--- a/src/app/dashboard/workforce/missing-rate-overview.test.tsx
+++ b/src/app/dashboard/workforce/missing-rate-overview.test.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { renderToStaticMarkup } from "react-dom/server";
-import { beforeEach, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 const mocks = vi.hoisted(() => ({ list: vi.fn(), scope: vi.fn() }));
 vi.mock("next/navigation", () => ({ useRouter: () => ({ refresh: vi.fn() }) }));
 vi.mock("@/lib/pb", () => ({ pbAdmin: async () => ({ collection: (name: string) => ({ getFullList: (options: unknown) => mocks.list(name, options) }) }) }));
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ vi.mock("./workforce-charts", () => ({ WorkforceHoursChart: () => null, TopWorke
 import WorkforceLanding from "./page";
 
 beforeEach(() => {
+  // Pinned so "this month" is a fixed window: the unpriced-hours warning
+  // is now scoped to the current month, not to all history.
+  vi.useFakeTimers();
+  vi.setSystemTime(new Date("2026-10-04T10:00:00Z"));
   mocks.scope.mockResolvedValue({ active: [{ id: "site1" }], allowed: [{ id: "site1", name: "Head Office" }], mode: "single", unrestricted: false });
   mocks.list.mockImplementation(async (name: string) => {
     if (name === "employees") return [
@@ -22,21 +26,30 @@ beforeEach(() => {
       { employee: "paid", date_logged: "2026-09-30", hours_worked: 8 },
       { employee: "paid", date_logged: "2026-10-01", hours_worked: 8 },
       { employee: "missing", date_logged: "2026-09-15", hours_worked: 5 },
+      { employee: "missing", date_logged: "2026-10-02", hours_worked: 5 },
     ];
     if (name === "employee_rates") return [{ employee: "paid", effective_from: "2026-10-01", rate_per_hour: 60 }];
     if (name === "sites") return [{ id: "site1", name: "Head Office" }];
     return [];
   });
 });
+afterEach(() => vi.useRealTimers());
 
 it("shows a missing-rate action and an incomplete cost total using dated payroll", async () => {
   const html = renderToStaticMarkup(await WorkforceLanding({ searchParams: Promise.resolve({}) }));
   expect(html).toContain("Needs attention");
   expect(html).toContain("Missing Worker");
   expect(html).toContain("Add rate for Missing Worker");
-  expect(html).toContain("5 hrs still need rates");
+  // Only the 5 October hours are unpriced this month; the 5 September
+  // ones are history and no longer reported on the tile.
+  expect(html).toContain("5 hrs this month still need rates");
   expect(html).toContain("Paid Worker: 880");
-  expect(mocks.list).toHaveBeenCalledWith("employee_rates", { filter: 'employee.site="site1"' });
+});
+
+it("does not filter rate history by site, so a worker priced elsewhere is still priced", async () => {
+  await WorkforceLanding({ searchParams: Promise.resolve({}) });
+  const rateCall = mocks.list.mock.calls.find(([name]) => name === "employee_rates");
+  expect(rateCall?.[1]).toBeUndefined();
 });
 
 it("hides inactive workers from rate alerts but preserves their recorded costs", async () => {