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Payroll Tip: Check Your Worker Classifications
Check Your Prevailing Wage Worker Classifications When is a laborer, not a laborer? Potentially, when they’re an equipment operator — or working as anything else, for that matter. That’s because when agencies look for prevailing wage compliance, they aren’t necessarily...5 Reasons Why You Should Review Pre-Check Reports
Construction offices know how invaluable good payroll reports are — whether that’s for keeping track of accruals through the year, reprinting an earnings history or filing W-2s — but what about pre-payroll reporting? Pre-check reports that let you view the effect of a...Case Study: For Tight Line Construction, One Good Decision Leads to Another
With any new company, the work at the very beginning is easily the most challenging, as early decisions shape the future of the business. In 2014, the Boston-based wall and ceilings specialty contractor Tight Line Construction* had been operating for...Payroll Tip: Put Construction Payroll Processes First, Then Adopt Mobile
Put Construction Payroll Processes First, Then Adopt Mobile Everyone is telling you to ditch the paper time sheets and pick up a timecard app…Will it really save you money without having the proper construction payroll processes in place? There are...Payroll Tip: Watch Out for Multi-State Payroll Tax Issues
Watch Out for Multi-State Payroll Tax Issues Let’s say your company is based in State A, but you win a job in State B. You send your crew over, and they send back their timecards. Which state do you need...Payroll Tip: Know Your Fringe Benefit Rules
Know Your Fringe Benefit Rules Union and prevailing wage payrolls give you a lot to keep track of — between rates for multiple trades and multiple rates for benefit types — but make sure too that those rates aren’t all...Payroll Tip: Code Your Certified Payroll by Job
Code Your Certified Payroll by Job Your employees are assigned to one or more jobs every day. Shouldn’t you assign their payroll expenses to a job too? “But it’s all coming out of the same G/L accounts,” you might say....Payroll services just for construction really do exist!
There is no denying that processing payroll in the construction industry can be difficult. With such complexities as multiple states and localities, prevailing wage work, and construction reporting, outsourcing payroll can seem like a nightmare. While all payroll services can...