A Grease Monkey Pit Crew is paid hourly by experience tier, from Courtesy Technician up to Technician A, and one owner often runs a SpeeDee or Kwik Kar next door. WageTime is payroll built for the tiers, the brands, and the state lines.
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A Grease Monkey crew runs on hourly tiers, a Pit Crew certification, and an owner who often carries more than one brand. There is no bi-weekly bonus to reconcile and no commission sheet to fold in, so the math should be easy. It stops being easy the moment a Courtesy Technician covers a bay shift, a Grease Monkey and a SpeeDee share an office, or a crew works two states in one week. That is where the tiers, the brands, and the state lines all land on one person after close.
Grease Monkey pays its Pit Crew by experience tier: a Courtesy Technician on vacuums and glass, a Technician C with a couple of years in the bay, a Technician A with five. Salary trackers put the work near hourly, with almost no additional pay, so the rate is the tier and the tier is the rate. Generic payroll treats every tech as one flat number and loses the ladder that actually sets the check.
A Courtesy Technician who covers a bay shift, or a tech promoted from C to B on a Wednesday, works two rates in one week. Overtime past forty then has to compute on the weighted-average of both rates, not whichever was easier to type. Pay the over-forty hours on one tier alone and you have the exact regular-rate shortfall the Labor Department keeps writing up in the automotive trade.
Grease Monkey shares a franchisor, FullSpeed Automotive, with SpeeDee Oil Change and Kwik Kar, so a single owner often runs more than one brand. Each brand wants its own EIN, its own filings, and its own labor line, but the owner still needs one view across all of them. A pile of logins, one per brand, is how a filing slips.
Grease Monkey certifies its Pit Crew through its own training program, with Grease Monkey University running the online coursework up toward ASE prep. That certification is what makes a Certified Pit Crew, and it is the milestone that steps a tech up a tier. Right now it lives on a manager’s spreadsheet, disconnected from the record that actually pays the person.
Grease Monkey was founded in Denver and runs heavily across the Mountain West, so a growing operator crosses state lines fast. Colorado, the home state, layers a daily overtime rule on top of the weekly one, and every state sets its own minimum wage. A crew that works two states in one week meets two rule sets, and one spreadsheet was never going to catch both.
WageTime gives each Pit Crew tier its own hourly pay code at its own rate, and when a tech works two of them in one week, a bay-shift cover or a mid-period promotion, overtime past forty computes on the weighted-average of both automatically.
Replaces the one-flat-rate check that ignored the tier a tech actually worked, and the promotion nobody dated.
Yes: WageTime holds each brand as its own entity and EIN, or each store a department under one, with a single login across the portfolio and labor reported per store, per brand, or combined.
| Location | Brand | Labor MTD |
|---|---|---|
| Store 41Aurora CO · EIN **-6120 | Grease Monkey | $27,410.00 |
| Store 47Longmont CO · EIN **-6120 | Grease Monkey | $24,880.00 |
| Store 12Loveland CO · EIN **-3355 | SpeeDee | $22,140.00 |
| Combined view2 EINs | 2 brands | $74,430.00 |
Replaces the second login for the second brand, and the pooled labor figure that hid which store or banner was losing money.
Training and certification track on the same employee record that sets pay. WageTime’s learning module assigns the Grease Monkey University coursework, marks completion, and logs the Pit Crew certification that steps a tier, all in one place instead of a manager’s spreadsheet.
Replaces the certification list kept in a binder, and the tier bump that waited on someone to remember it.
A second state becomes a tax profile, not a second payroll company: WageTime files every federal, state, and local tax automatically, across all 50 states plus Puerto Rico and more than 11,000 local jurisdictions.
Replaces the second state that turned into a second payroll company, and the minimum-wage check that lived in the owner’s head.
The clock hours your point-of-sale logs import straight into the run, no double entry: WageTime brings them in per store, LubeSoft or whatever system you run, then rolls every store into one run for the group. The exact flow gets confirmed on the demo.
| Tech | Clock hrs | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Marisol T.Store 41 | 44.0 | Ready |
| Devin O.Store 41 | 40.0 | Ready |
| Kayla R.Store 47 | 31.5 | Ready |
| Amir P.Store 41 | 26.0 | I-9 open |
Replaces the per-store retype between LubeSoft and Friday’s run, and the transposed digit that shorted a Pit Crew check.
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 demoGrease Monkey pays its Pit Crew by experience tier, from Courtesy Technician to Technician A, mostly as straight hourly with little commission. WageTime runs each tier as its own hourly pay code at its own rate, and when a tech works two tiers in one week, overtime past forty hours computes on the weighted-average of both rates automatically.
Yes. Grease Monkey, SpeeDee Oil Change, and Kwik Kar share the FullSpeed franchisor, and many owners run more than one brand. WageTime runs each brand under its own EIN with its own filings, one login across all of them, and labor reported per store, per brand, or combined, with role-based access per location.
Yes. WageTime’s learning module assigns the coursework and marks completion on each tech’s record, and Pit Crew certification is tracked like any credential, with documents attached and recurring alerts at 30, 60, and 90 days. Because the pay tier follows the certification, clearing the cert and stepping the rate happen on one record.
WageTime files every federal, state, and local tax automatically across all 50 states plus Puerto Rico and more than 11,000 local jurisdictions, with reciprocity and rooftop-level geolocation. Minimum-wage processing runs at federal, state, and local levels, and Colorado’s daily overtime rule and each state’s wage floor should be reviewed with a specialist on the demo.
WageTime imports clock hours so there is no double entry. Tell us your store system on the demo and we will confirm the exact flow for your setup; WageTime does not claim a direct integration with LubeSoft or any point-of-sale system. Inside WageTime, hours code to the store and the job, and time tracking flows straight into the run.
$50 a month for the company plus $10 per person actually paid that month, with unlimited runs, so a weekly cadence and a midweek run cost nothing extra. Filings, W-2s, and 1099s are included. Run a Grease Monkey and a SpeeDee as separate LLCs? Each keeps its own EIN, with one login and combined reporting.
Last week’s clock hours by tech, the tier each one worked, and the second brand or the second state if you carry one. Twenty minutes with a payroll specialist on a live demo group: you’ll watch a tier-mix week compute its own weighted-average overtime, see the minimum-wage floor run on real hours, and get a straight answer on running every brand and EIN from one login.
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