A Jeep store is almost never only Jeep — it’s a Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram rooftop where one service drive flags Ram HD diesel, Dodge performance, Chrysler minivan, and Jeep 4xe warranty work into a single run, and where Mopar’s numbered ladder pays Level 2 and Level 3 techs a premium on warranty lines — sometimes a level above the certification they’re still earning. Generic payroll sees one flat rate and one company; the office reconciles the rest by hand. WageTime runs the CDJR pay run the way it’s built: the numbered ladder, the four-franchise close, the 4xe warranty tail, and the accessory lane — one EIN, one Friday.
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A CDJR rooftop pays nothing like a single-brand store. Every item below is either hours of unpaid office work at close or a liability compounding quietly while nobody has time to check.
Mopar certifies techs on numbered levels — Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 — and many CDJR stores pay Level 2 techs a premium on Mopar warranty lines and Level 3 a larger one. The same tech earns one rate on customer-pay hours and a higher rate on warranty hours, and the office keys that split by hand.
Stellantis lets a tech be paid for work one level above their certification while they’re actively training for it. So a Level 1 tech can legitimately draw the Level 2 warranty rate today — and payroll has to hold a “paid level” apart from the “certified level,” with an effective date for when the real cert lands.
One tech flags a Ram HD diesel, a Dodge performance job, a Chrysler minivan, and a Jeep 4xe in the same period. Four brands’ warranty schedules land in one pay run, usually under one EIN carrying four franchise agreements — and generic payroll treats it like a single-brand shop.
The Wrangler 4xe and Grand Cherokee 4xe are gone from the lineup, but the installed base still needs HV service, and recall 68C is a multi-module battery job, not a quick flash. Stellantis gates that work trained-or-not — no HV rung to map — so the office needs a plain authorized flag, not a tier.
Wrangler and Gladiator buyers pile on Jeep Performance Parts — lifts, bumpers, lighting — but a JPP lift can’t be installed before first retail sale or financed into the deal. That install labor is a third bucket: customer-pay flag hours, no warranty uplift, outside the F&I close, often with an install spiff of its own.
Stellantis’ Customer First Award for Excellence is earned monthly, not once a year, and it turns on service metrics like Fixed First Visit. Any money that passes through to staff arrives off-cycle on the month it’s earned — supplemental wages that need correct tax treatment and an effective date, not a guess.
The screens below run on sample store data. The paid-above-grade rule rides inside the ladder screen; the accessory math and the monthly-score money get straight answers in the FAQ.
WageTime binds a Mopar tech’s pay to two things at once — the certification level and the warranty-line rate that rides on it — with an effective date for the level you pay a tech at, even while their next certification is still in progress. Mopar’s ladder is numbered (Level 1 → 2 → 3), and many CDJR stores pay Level 2 techs about 10% and Level 3 about 20% more on Mopar warranty lines, so the same person earns one cert-tied rate on customer-pay hours and a higher one on warranty hours. Stellantis’ technician-exemption policy lets a Level 1 tech be paid at the Level 2 rate while actively training for it, so WageTime carries that effective-dated rate now and sets a threshold flag on the cert deadline. No hand-keyed uplift, no retro fight when the cert posts late.
| Tech | Cert → paid | Base rate | Warranty-line rate | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. Boone #06 | L3 → L3 | $40.00/flag hr | $48.00 (+20%) | Current |
| M. Ortega #11 | L2 → L2 | $34.00/flag hr | $37.40 (+10%) | Current |
| J. Farris #14 | L1 → L2 (in training) | $28.00/flag hr | $30.80 (+10%) | Paid above grade |
| D. Sun #19 | L1 → L1 | $28.00/flag hr | $28.00 no uplift | Current |
Replaces the spreadsheet that tracks who’s Level 2, who’s Level 3, and who’s being paid up a rung — and the retro adjustment when a cert posts late.
WageTime pulls the whole service drive into one run — a tech’s Jeep, Ram, Dodge, and Chrysler flag hours arrive together, split warranty vs customer-pay, tied to the repair orders they came from, with nothing re-keyed. A CDJR rooftop is four Stellantis franchises under one roof, usually one EIN carrying four franchise agreements, and one tech routinely flags a Ram heavy-duty diesel, a Dodge performance job, and a Jeep 4xe in the same fortnight. Generic payroll treats that like a single-brand shop and leaves the office to reconcile four labor-op catalogs by hand. WageTime imports the hours per tech per period no matter which brand’s schedule they came off, and when the run finishes it posts to QuickBooks mapped by department — so fixed-ops labor reads cleanly without a journal entry. Tell us your DMS on the demo and we’ll confirm the exact flow for your setup.
| Tech | Franchise mix | Warranty flag | Customer-pay flag | Total flag | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. Boone #06 | Jeep + Ram | 22.4 | 44.1 | 66.5 | Ready |
| M. Ortega #11 | Ram HD diesel | 31.2 | 28.8 | 60.0 | Ready |
| J. Farris #14 | Jeep + Dodge | 18.6 | 39.0 | 57.6 | Ready |
| D. Sun #19 | Chrysler + Jeep | 12.0 | 30.5 | 42.5 | 1 RO open |
Replaces four labor-op catalogs reconciled into one spreadsheet — and the flag hour that gets dropped between two brands’ reports.
WageTime imports each 4xe high-voltage job as its own flag operation, split warranty or customer-pay, and gates it with a single HV-authorized flag on the tech — because Stellantis authorizes HV work trained-or-not, with no intermediate rung to price. The Wrangler 4xe and Grand Cherokee 4xe have left the lineup, but the installed base is large and still in service, and recall 68C is a multi-module HV-battery programming job that concentrates warranty hours on a handful of trained techs — hours that earn the Level-2 or Level-3 warranty uplift on top. WageTime routes an unauthorized tech’s HV repair order for reassignment before it pays, so a premium job never lands on the wrong check, and the warranty-vs-customer-pay split carries through per operation. A binary authorized flag, not a tier nobody publishes.
| Tech | RO · job | Model | Flag hrs | Pay bucket | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. Boone #06 | RO 60142 · 68C recall | Wrangler 4xe | 4.8 | Warranty | Ready |
| C. Boone #06 | RO 60188 · HV battery diag | Grand Cherokee 4xe | 2.6 | Warranty | Ready |
| M. Ortega #11 | RO 60203 · charge-port R&I | Wrangler 4xe | 1.4 | Customer-pay | Ready |
| D. Sun #19 | RO 60219 · 68C recall | Wrangler 4xe | 4.8 | Warranty | Held: not HV-authorized |
Replaces the sticky note listing who’s cleared for the 4xe battery bay — and the recall hour that pays out to a tech who shouldn’t have flagged it.
WageTime books accessory-install labor as its own customer-pay flag bucket — separate from warranty hours and outside the F&I close — and carries the install spiff to the tech who did the work. Jeep Performance Parts lifts, bumpers, and lighting can’t be installed before a Wrangler or Gladiator’s first retail sale or financed into the deal, so the labor lands post-sale as customer-pay service work, not a delivery line and not warranty. WageTime keeps that third bucket distinct: the install hours pay at the tech’s base rate with no warranty uplift, the spiff rides alongside as supplemental pay, and none of it touches the deal’s chargeback math. High-volume on off-road builds, and every hour and spiff reconciles on the same run instead of on a side sheet the accessory manager keeps.
| Tech | RO · install | Flag hrs | Pay bucket | Install spiff | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J. Farris #14 | RO 60155 · 2″ lift + 35s | 6.5 | Customer-pay | +$75.00 | Ready |
| J. Farris #14 | RO 60177 · front bumper + winch | 3.2 | Customer-pay | +$40.00 | Ready |
| D. Sun #19 | RO 60190 · rock rails | 2.0 | Customer-pay | +$25.00 | Ready |
| M. Ortega #11 | RO 60211 · light bar + wiring | 2.8 | Customer-pay | +$30.00 | Ready |
Replaces the accessory manager’s side sheet of who installed what — and the spiff that gets paid a month late because it wasn’t on the deal.
WageTime runs the commission close — the month’s hardest week at a CDJR store — once, as payroll, and releases the Customer First money the day its monthly score posts. Front-end packs, unit minis, volume tiers, and F&I with chargeback netting settle per person; draw offsets net against a running balance, and any unreconciled deal rolls forward rather than stalling the close. The same run true-ups the techs a warranty-heavy fortnight has dragged toward the minimum-wage floor and pulls in every franchise’s imported flag hours without re-keying. Because Stellantis’ Customer First Award for Excellence is earned monthly on service metrics like Fixed First Visit, any pass-through to staff runs off-cycle with correct supplemental-wage treatment — unlimited runs mean that check costs nothing extra. Recovery from a final paycheck is blocked where state law prohibits it, so a carried draw balance doesn’t follow someone out the door illegally.
| Salesperson | Units | Gross comm | Minis + tiers | F&I / chargebacks | Draw offset | Net |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reggie A. | 15 | $9,000.00 | +$800.00 | — | −$3,000.00 | $6,800.00 |
| Nadia K. | 12 | $6,600.00 | +$500.00 | — | −$3,000.00 | $4,100.00 |
| Beau T. · F&I | — | $12,100.00 | — | −$1,050.00 | −$4,000.00 | $7,050.00 |
| Cole M. | 6 | $2,400.00 | — | — | −$3,000.00 | −$600.00 carried |
| Priya D. | 10 | $5,200.00 | +$500.00 | — | −$3,000.00 | $2,700.00 |
Replaces the commission workbook, the by-hand true-up, and the calendar note to “pay the Customer First money once the monthly score is in.”
Each level carries two rates: a base flat rate on customer-pay hours and a higher rate on Mopar warranty lines — many CDJR stores pay Level 2 about 10% more and Level 3 about 20% more on warranty work. WageTime binds both to the tech’s level with an effective date, so the uplift applies to warranty flag hours automatically and customer-pay stays at base.
Yes. Stellantis’ technician-exemption policy lets a tech be paid one level up while actively training for it, so WageTime uses an effective-dated rate for the level you pay a tech at, set apart from the level they’ve certified. It carries a threshold flag on the cert deadline, so there’s no retro cleanup when the certification posts late.
A CDJR rooftop is four franchises, usually under one EIN, and one tech flags Jeep, Ram, Dodge, and Chrysler jobs in the same period. WageTime imports every franchise’s clock and flag hours into one run, split warranty vs customer-pay and tied to the repair orders, so four labor-op catalogs don’t become four spreadsheets. Tell us your DMS on the demo and we’ll confirm the exact flow.
Stellantis gates HV work trained-or-not, with no intermediate rung, so WageTime uses a single HV-authorized flag rather than a tier. Each 4xe job — including the multi-module 68C recall — imports as its own warranty flag operation, and an unauthorized tech’s HV repair order is held for reassignment before it pays. Warranty HV hours still earn the tech’s level uplift.
Customer-pay. JPP lifts, bumpers, and lighting can’t be installed before first retail sale or financed into the deal, so the labor lands post-sale as customer-pay flag hours — no warranty uplift and outside the F&I close. WageTime books it as its own bucket and carries the install spiff to the installing tech as supplemental pay, taxed correctly.
$50 per month per company plus $8 per person paid that month — no contracts, cancel anytime, with unlimited payroll runs so off-cycle Customer First and final-check runs cost nothing extra. Onboarding and migration are full-service and paid: a specialist configures your entities, four franchises, pay plans, and people with you. Support after go-live is real humans, around the clock.
Last month’s commission sheets, a warranty-heavy fortnight of Jeep, Ram, Dodge, and Chrysler flag hours, the level list with who’s being paid up a rung, and the accessory installs off the side sheet. Twenty minutes with a payroll specialist on a live demo store — if WageTime can’t carry your comp plans, you’ll know before the meeting ends.
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