WageTime is payroll for independently owned and operated Homewatch CareGivers offices, built for a business that runs every visit length at once, from a two-hour check-in to 24-hour care, with virtual visits now scheduled alongside. Every visit type is a pay code here.
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A Homewatch CareGivers office is several payrolls wearing one logo: a short-visit route business, a live-in operation, a training academy, and now a virtual care line, all funded by a revenue number the FDD says is half caregiver wages.
The brand’s FY2024 disclosure shows an average office serving 52 clients on visits of two hours or less. Fifty-two doors means dozens of drive segments a day, and every minute between clients is payable time at a rate the overtime math has to remember. The route is efficient. The spreadsheet paying it is not.
Homewatch Connect puts the visit on the client’s TV: a scheduled video check-in by a real care-team member. Fifteen remote minutes are still minutes worked, by somebody, at some rate. If the only pay codes you have are hourly-in-home and office-salary, the newest service on the menu is also the one payroll can’t describe.
The brand standard calls for a minimum of 12 hours of continuing education annually, for every caregiving employee, from a catalog of nearly 600 courses. That is a recurring wage line, not a one-time certification: multiply 12 paid hours by your whole roster, every year, and fold each hour into the week’s overtime rate.
Trackers relaying the FDD describe a 5 percent royalty against a minimum that steps up by month open, reaching $2,500 a month from month 61, next to a brand fund whose rate declines as revenue grows. The fee calendar moves on fixed dates. It doesn’t ask whether the caregiver-cost line, published at about half of revenue, moved too.
Homewatch is the only care brand in the fifteen-brand portfolio Authority Brands lists today, and the FDD’s affiliate discount invites existing franchisees to add another. The owner who says yes runs caregivers under one EIN and an electrical or cleaning crew under another, with different pay rules, filings, and posters for each.
Pay the mix with one engine: every service and visit length runs as its own pay code at its own rate, and when a caregiver’s week crosses rates, WageTime computes overtime automatically on the weighted average of everything earned.
Replaces the Friday spreadsheet that paid the 41st hour at whichever rate it happened to land on.
Pay a virtual visit like the visit it is: a per-visit pay code with its own rate, or paid minutes at an hourly rate, whichever matches how your office staffs the Total Care Solutions tiers.
| Team member | Time | Pay |
|---|---|---|
| Yolanda R.11 check-ins | 3.5 hrs | $66.50 |
| Denzel K.8 check-ins | 2.75 hrs | $52.25 |
| Tabitha N.4 follow-ups | 1.25 hrs | $23.75 |
| Office care team9 wellness calls | 3.0 hrs | $57.00 |
Replaces the remote check-ins that vanished into salaried time because no pay code could say what they were.
Whether training hours are paid is set office by office, and offices that advertise paid training then have to run it: in WageTime, training time is a pay code at the caregiver’s rate, folded into the same week’s overtime math like any worked hour.
| Caregiver | Hours vs floor | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Tabitha N. | 12.5 of 12.0 | Complete |
| Walter B. | 9.0 of 12.0 | On pace |
| Noor J. | 4.5 of 12.0 | Below pace |
| Ingrid T. | 12.0 of 12.0 | Complete |
| Omar H. | 3.0 of 12.0 | Below pace |
Replaces the binder that couldn’t say who still owed hours in November.
A rounding error on a line the FDD already sizes for you: trackers relaying Homewatch’s FY2024 Item 19 put direct caregiver costs at an average of 50 percent of gross revenue. WageTime prices flat against that reality: $50 a month plus $10 per person paid.
| Month | Care hours | Gross wages |
|---|---|---|
| AugustInvoice $470 | 3,610 | $67,420 |
| SeptemberInvoice $480 | 3,745 | $70,180 |
| OctoberInvoice $490 | 3,890 | $73,050 |
| NovemberInvoice $480 | 3,662 | $68,730 |
Replaces the payroll bill that scaled like a percentage on the biggest cost line you have.
Run each business under its own EIN in WageTime, with its own filings, and keep one login across the group: caregivers run with visit codes and differentials, the trades crew runs with its own codes and state accounts, and the two payrolls stay legally separate.
| Company | People | Filings |
|---|---|---|
| Homewatch CareGivers of LakewoodLast run Fri Dec 11 | 38 | Current |
| Mister Sparky of LakewoodLast run Fri Dec 11 | 9 | Current |
Replaces the second payroll login with its own password, invoice, and support queue.
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 demoAuthority Brands, LLC has owned Homewatch CareGivers since September 2017. Funds advised by Apax Partners acquired Authority Brands in 2018, and British Columbia Investment Management took a significant minority stake in 2022. The brand itself was founded in Denver in 1980 by Paul Sauer and has franchised since the mid-1990s. Every office is independently owned and operated.
Caregivers are employed by the local franchise business. Franchise trackers relaying the 2025 FDD report 224 franchised US territories at the end of 2024 and none company-owned, so the wage bill, overtime, tax filings, and workers’ comp sit with the franchisee’s company. WageTime runs payroll for that office, not for corporate.
Pay a scheduled remote check-in as its own pay code: per visit at a set rate, or as paid minutes at an hourly rate, matching how your office staffs the Total Care Solutions tiers. Remote minutes are worked time, so they join the caregiver’s weighted-average overtime week, and job costing codes them to the virtual care line.
The brand standard sets a minimum of 12 hours of continuing education annually per caregiving employee; whether that time is paid is decided office by office, and many offices advertise paid training to recruits. In WageTime, paid training runs as a pay code inside the overtime math, with course completions tracked per caregiver in the learning module.
Franchise trackers relaying the FDD describe a royalty of 5 percent of gross revenue or a minimum that steps up by month open, reaching $2,500 monthly from month 61, plus a brand fund that declines from 2 percent to 0.5 percent as revenue tiers rise, and local marketing minimums. Fee terms change; verify against the current FDD.
Trackers relaying the brand’s FY2024 Item 19 report an average of $1,367,155 in gross revenue per full-year territory, median $728,401, and average direct caregiver costs of 50 percent of revenue. Full-year franchisees, who averaged about 1.9 territories each, averaged $2,552,023. Published summaries, not offers or earnings promises; verify against the current FDD.
The invoice is $50 a month for the company plus $10 for each person paid that month, and the price is flat at any pay frequency: weekly runs, off-cycle checks, and final checks are all included. Taxes file automatically at federal, state, and local levels, W-2s and 1099s included, and there is no long-term contract. Onboarding and migration are full-service, paid, and scoped on the demo.
One short-visit caregiver’s week, your virtual visit schedule, and the training roster. Twenty minutes with a payroll specialist on a live demo company: the weighted-average overtime, the virtual visit codes, the 12-hour training report, and a month of invoices priced in dollars, not percentages.
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