Dawn pours, day-rate crews, and a week that mixes a finisher’s rate with a form setter’s: a concrete contractor’s payroll follows the slab, not the schedule. WageTime is built to run it that way.
Concrete is the trade where the material makes the schedule. Once the truck batches, the crew stays until the broom drags, and everything that happened between 4am and the last saw cut has to come out right on a paycheck.
Hot-weather practice caps how warm fresh concrete can go down, so July pours start at first light or run at night, and a rained-out Tuesday becomes a Saturday make-up. The premium hours are real. Generic payroll systems have no idea they happened.
A curb pour runs finishers, form setters, laborers, and a slipform or pump operator side by side, each on a different rate. On public work the inspector reads your certified payroll against the daily report, line by line, and a laborer who floated the slab is owed the finisher’s rate for those hours.
Plenty of pour crews are paid by the day. Federal rules still convert that day rate into a regular rate and demand time-and-a-half past forty. A Virginia concrete contractor signed a consent judgment in April 2024 for roughly $1.2 million after denying overtime to hourly, day-rate, and salaried workers alike.
ACI flatwork certifications run on a 5-year cycle, ACPA pump-operator cards on a 2-year cycle, and specs from PennDOT down to city curb standards want current cards on the pour. Nobody notices an expired card until a bid or an inspector does.
The day the crew saws joints or grinds high spots, OSHA’s silica standard is in play: prescribed controls by task, a competent person, and training the company must be able to prove. When the question comes, the answer is a records request, and the records live in a binder somebody left in a truck.
With pay codes, not favors: WageTime configures night, weekend, and holiday shift differentials plus on-call pay directly in payroll, so the 4am batch window and the Saturday make-up pay their premium automatically.
| Pay code | Workers | Week total |
|---|---|---|
| Night pour differentialPer-hour premium | 6 | $312.00 |
| Saturday make-up pourWeekend differential | 5 | $214.50 |
| Cure watch on-callFlat per day | 1 | $150.00 |
| Day ratePour-crew flat amount | 4 | $3,520.00 |
| Holiday (observed)Premium hours | 0 | $0.00 |
Replaces the foreman’s mental ledger of who showed up at 4am, and the handshake math that settles it.
The same person can be finisher, form setter, and laborer in one week. WageTime pays each hour at the rate the work carried and computes weighted-average overtime automatically whenever someone works two or more rates or classifications.
Replaces the whiteboard that converts day rates to regular rates, badly, at 9pm on Thursday.
ACI flatwork cards run on a 5-year cycle, ACPA pump cards on 2. WageTime tracks each credential on the employee record with expiration alerts, so the recert exam is scheduled before the card gates a bid.
| Worker | Expires | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Rico M.ACI Concrete Flatwork Finisher | Mar 2031 | Current |
| Curt B.ACPA Pump Operator (boom) | Sep 2026 | 45-day renewal |
| Lena K.ACI Flatwork Associate | Jan 2030 | Current |
| Danny O.NRMCA Ext Flatwork Finisher | No expiry | Current |
| Sam P.ACI Concrete Flatwork Finisher | Jul 2027 | Current |
Replaces the spreadsheet of expiry dates nobody opened since the last bid, and the job-trailer folder standing in for it.
Proof, mostly. OSHA’s silica rule expects a written exposure control plan, a competent person, and workers trained on the hazard; WageTime handles the documentation side of that duty in one system.
| Worker | Completed | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Sam P.Silica awareness (annual) | Jul 14 | On file |
| Rico M.Silica awareness (annual) | Jul 14 | On file |
| Danny O.Competent person refresher | Jun 02 | On file |
| Lena K.Silica awareness (annual) | Due Aug 15 | Assigned |
| Javier R.Silica awareness (annual) | Jul 14 | On file |
Replaces the binder in the truck, and the scramble when a records request finds it soggy.
Whoever finished gets the finisher rate: on public work the classification follows the work performed, hour by hour, and WageTime’s certified payroll add-on, scoped and priced on the demo, puts each hour in the right column.
| Worker | Classification | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Rico M.Machine finish + hand float | Cement mason | 40.0 |
| Danny O.Form lines, set + strip | Form setter (laborer group) | 38.5 |
| Lena K.Float + edge, 6 stations | Cement mason | 24.0 |
| Curt B.Slipform machine | Operator, group 1 | 36.0 |
| Sam P.Grade check + tear-out | Laborer, group 1 | 40.0 |
Replaces the Sunday-night spreadsheet that guesses who floated and who formed, a week after everyone forgot.
Full-service payroll is $10 a month per person paid that month, plus $50 a month per company, with unlimited runs. No long-term contracts, no per-run charges.
Off-cycle runs and bonuses cost nothing extra. No long-term contracts; cancel anytime.
Example: 50 people paid × $10 + $50 company = $550 for the month
HR & hiring, onboarding, PTO, time tracking, benefits, and workers’ comp are optional add-ons, priced separately when you’re ready.
See a demoYes, as a construction add-on scoped and priced on the demo. The WH-347 comes straight off the run, job-costing segments intact. County wage determinations set the rate by classification, project, and location, so a cement mason’s rate follows the work whether they floated the slab or set the forms, with fringe as cash or into a bona fide benefit plan.
Day rates run as flat-amount pay codes, and overtime computes on the weighted-average regular rate automatically once the week mixes rates or passes forty hours. Overtime for day-rate workers is exactly what federal investigators enforced against a Virginia concrete contractor in 2024, so WageTime does the conversion in the run, not in a spreadsheet.
Yes. Credential tracking stores each card on the employee record with date-driven expiration alerts at 30, 60, and 90 days. An ACI flatwork card on its 5-year cycle and an ACPA pump-operator card on its 2-year cycle both surface before a bid or an inspector catches them expired.
Silica awareness training is assigned through WageTime’s learning management module, and the completion record stays on each employee’s file, with recurring compliance tasks scheduling the refreshers. WageTime documents the training side; the written exposure control plan and the competent person remain your program.
A hard-frost forecast ends the pour season, and payroll winds down with it: the bulk termination wizard offboards everyone at once, and spring rehires reopen each worker’s retained record instead of restarting paperwork from zero. Pricing follows the roster: at $10 per person paid that month, a quiet January costs the $50 company fee.
$50 per month per company plus $10 per person paid that month, with unlimited runs, so rain-delay make-up runs and off-cycle final checks are included. Certified payroll, prevailing wage, and union payroll are add-ons, scoped and priced on the demo. No long-term contracts; cancel anytime.
One week of hours from a real pour, your crew’s cert list, and the wage determination if the job was public. Twenty minutes with a payroll specialist on a live demo company: you’ll watch the differentials, the blended overtime, and the WH-347 come off one run.
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