A Jeep store is almost never only Jeep: one Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram service drive flags four brands’ warranty work into a single run, paid on Mopar’s numbered ladder. WageTime runs the CDJR pay run the way it’s built: 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.
Two rates bind to each tech at once in WageTime, the cert-tied base and the warranty-line uplift, with an effective date for the level you pay at, even while the next certification is still in progress.
| Tech · cert → paid | Base rate | Warranty rate |
|---|---|---|
| C. Boone #06L3 → L3 · Current | $40.00 | $48.00 (+20%) |
| M. Ortega #11L2 → L2 · Current | $34.00 | $37.40 (+10%) |
| J. Farris #14L1 → L2 · Paid above grade | $28.00 | $30.80 (+10%) |
| D. Sun #19L1 → L1 · Current · no uplift | $28.00 | $28.00 |
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.
The whole drive lands in 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.
| Tech · franchise mix | Total flag | Status |
|---|---|---|
| C. Boone #06 · Jeep + Ram22.4 wty · 44.1 cust-pay | 66.5 | Ready |
| M. Ortega #11 · Ram HD diesel31.2 wty · 28.8 cust-pay | 60.0 | Ready |
| J. Farris #14 · Jeep + Dodge18.6 wty · 39.0 cust-pay | 57.6 | Ready |
| D. Sun #19 · Chrysler + Jeep12.0 wty · 30.5 cust-pay | 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.
With no rung to price, WageTime gates 4xe work with a single HV-authorized flag: each high-voltage job imports as its own flag operation, split warranty or customer-pay, and an unauthorized tech’s RO is held before it pays.
| Tech · RO | Flag hrs | Status |
|---|---|---|
| C. Boone #06 · RO 6014268C recall · Wrangler 4xe, wty | 4.8 | Ready |
| C. Boone #06 · RO 60188HV batt diag · GC 4xe, wty | 2.6 | Ready |
| M. Ortega #11 · RO 60203port · Wrangler 4xe, cust-pay | 1.4 | Ready |
| D. Sun #19 · RO 6021968C, Wrangler 4xe, wty, unauth | 4.8 | Held |
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.
Customer-pay: a JPP lift can’t be installed before first retail sale or financed into the deal, so the install labor books in WageTime as its own customer-pay flag bucket, at the tech’s base rate with no warranty uplift.
| Tech · RO | Flag hrs | Install spiff |
|---|---|---|
| J. Farris #14 · RO 601552″ lift + 35s · customer-pay | 6.5 | +$75.00 |
| J. Farris #14 · RO 60177front bumper + winch, cust-pay | 3.2 | +$40.00 |
| D. Sun #19 · RO 60190rock rails · customer-pay | 2.0 | +$25.00 |
| M. Ortega #11 · RO 60211light bar + wiring, cust-pay | 2.8 | +$30.00 |
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.
The four-franchise month closes in one WageTime approval: minis, volume tiers, and F&I chargeback netting settle per person, draw offsets net against running balances, and the Customer First money releases off-cycle the day its monthly score posts.
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.”
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 demoEach 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 $10 per person paid that month: no long-term 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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