Dropdown or Labels with NUMBERS

I would like to add a dropdown or label selection with NUMBERS to a column. In my example i want to offer predefined hourly rates…
In a second step I want to add a formula and multiply the rate with another column with the quantity of hours.
Any workaround? I tried it with labels and checkboxes. But they deliver TEXT. So I can’t use them for calculation.
Regards
Martin

Hi @martin.haefliger, welcome to the community!

Unfortunately, the system doesn’t recognize whether you have a number or a text in the label - it reads it as text by default. So if you need a calculation, you would need to use the Number field.

I understand that doesn’t align with your initial idea of having a dropdown, but sadly formulas/calculations need specific values to be able to work, in this case, it would be a number field that’s necessary.