The Problem with Manual Wage Math

Every Saturday evening, contractors sit down with their site supervisors to calculate wages. You look at a messy paper grid filled with 'P's and 'A's. You multiply days worked by the daily rate for skilled workers, do the same for unskilled labour, subtract the petty cash advances given on Tuesday, and try to find the final number.

Human error is unavoidable. A simple miscalculation of a half-day or a forgotten cash advance leads to immediate disputes with your workforce. It breaks trust and costs you money.

How to Automate the Process

Step 1: Digitize Your Roster by Trade. Organize your workers logically. When you group skilled and unskilled labour separately, you can manage pay scales more efficiently across multiple sites.

Step 2: Set Fixed Daily Rates. Assign a fixed daily wage to each worker in the system once. The software will use this as the master rate for all future math.

Step 3: Log Daily Attendance. Have your supervisor mark Present, Half-Day, or Absent on their phone. The system instantly multiplies the status by the fixed daily rate.

Step 4: Review Payday Aggregations. On Saturday, open your dashboard. The system has already calculated the total Amount Owed, automatically deducting any logged cash advances. You just pay the final number.