A Lexus Plus store pays one salaried consultant to carry the guest from greeting through F&I to delivery at a posted price, while the pre-owned rooftop still pays gross commission. WageTime runs the Lexus pay run the way a luxury group is actually built.
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Behind a Lexus badge sit a salaried one-price consultant and a commissioned used-car floor, a technician ladder gated on three things at once, and a service drive where roughly half the work is electrified. Each item below is either unpaid office hours at close or a liability quietly compounding until someone finds the time to check it.
A Lexus Plus consultant earns a salary to run the guest end to end at a fixed price, F&I included: no minis, no tiers, no draw against commission. The pre-owned rooftop pays gross commission the old way. Generic payroll wants every salesperson to be the same kind of employee, and they aren’t.
A tech’s flat rate follows the Lexus Certified Technician Program ladder, but a rung isn’t one exam. Senior and Master each gate on Lexus dealer tenure, a set of Lexus College courses, and an ASE count together. Clear two and miss the third, and the rate shouldn’t move, but on a whiteboard, it usually does.
Lexus rewards certification with a subsidized master lease and recognition perks, so the difference between Senior and Master rates is money the tech is already counting on. Pay the wrong flat rate for three cycles and you’re not fixing a typo: you’re having a conversation at the service counter.
Electrified models were about 52% of Lexus sales in 2025 by industry reporting, so hybrid and warranty work is the everyday floor, not an edge case. Warranty labor pays on Lexus’s own time allowances, and a warranty-heavy fortnight quietly drags a flat-rate tech toward the minimum-wage floor while the bays look full.
Elite of Lexus recognizes stores on sales, service, and CSI, and the service team can be recognized on its own when the whole store doesn’t win. That award money lands mid-cycle, by department, with tax owed, and it deserves a check this week, not a line on the next scheduled run.
A luxury group holds each rooftop as its own company with its own EIN and filings, yet still wants one pay day and one approval. Generic providers answer with a login per entity and a consolidation workbook the controller rebuilds by hand every month.
One WageTime run settles both plans: the Lexus Plus consultant on salary plus a per-delivery flat, with their own F&I income and chargebacks attached, and the pre-owned floor on the traditional gross-commission close with its draw offsets.
Replaces the two spreadsheets that never agreed (one for salaried one-price deals, one for the used lot’s commission), closed by hand on different days.
The flat rate keys to the Lexus Certified Technician Program level, and WageTime moves it only when every gate for the rung clears: dealer tenure, the Lexus College course count, and the ASE count, together, on an effective date.
| Tech | Flat rate | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A. Tanaka #05Master · 36 mo · 8 ASE | $46.00/flag hr | Current |
| J. Okoro #11Master at A8 · 36 mo · 7/8 ASE | $38.00 → $44.00 | 1 ASE short |
| M. Delgado #14Sr at 1 course · 18 mo · 4 ASE | $30.00 → $34.00 | 1 course left |
| S. Reyes #19Certified · Lexus College done | $27.00/flag hr | Current |
Replaces the whiteboard of who’s Senior and who’s Master, and the retro argument when a rate jumped on the ASE result while a Lexus course was still open.
WageTime runs it automatically: warranty and customer-pay time stay split per tech, flat-rate earnings divide by real clock hours, and the floor test runs every period, which matters when electrified work is about half the drive.
Replaces the by-hand floor check the controller runs when there’s time, because a hybrid-heavy warranty fortnight doesn’t wait for when there’s time.
Yes: WageTime closes the group under one login on one pay day while each rooftop keeps its own EIN and files its own federal, state, and local taxes, and Elite of Lexus money runs off-cycle the day it clears.
| Company | Net pay | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Crestline Lexus LLC••-•••5028 · 58 people · filed | $242,910 | Ready |
| Crestline Pre-Owned LLC••-•••6613 · 19 people · filed | $58,420 | Ready |
| Crestline Toyota LLC••-•••2244 · 47 people · filed | $171,300 | Ready |
Replaces a login per EIN, and the month-end workbook that reconciles the Lexus store against the Toyota store by hand.
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 demoWageTime runs both plans in one pay run. The Lexus Plus consultant is paid salary plus a per-delivery flat, with their own F&I product income and chargebacks attached to the same person (no minis, tiers, or draw), while the pre-owned rooftop settles through the traditional gross-commission close. Each person runs on their own basis, closing the same day.
Each Lexus Certified Technician Program level carries its own flat rate. WageTime keys the rate to the tech’s current level and starts a new rate on the effective date, so leveling up reprices their flags at once. Because a rung gates on tenure, Lexus courses, and ASE count together, the rate holds until all three clear.
The rate doesn’t move yet. WageTime holds the higher flat rate until every gate for that rung is met (the Lexus dealer tenure, the designated Lexus courses, and the ASE certifications), then starts it on the effective date. A pending promotion or an expiring cert surfaces early, with the per-period dollar swing attached.
WageTime divides each tech’s flat-rate earnings by actual clock hours every period and tests it against the wage floor. Lexus warranty labor pays on Lexus time allowances, and with electrified work near half the drive, a warranty-heavy fortnight can pull a tech under the floor: the shortfall posts as a documented true-up before the check goes out.
Yes. Each rooftop keeps its own EIN, its own federal, state, and local filings, and its own books, with reporting per store or combined under one approval. Elite of Lexus recognition (which can reward the service team on its own) runs as an off-cycle payout at no extra cost, since payroll runs are unlimited.
$50 per month per company plus $10 per month per person paid that month, no long-term contracts. Payroll runs are unlimited, so off-cycle recognition and spiff runs cost nothing extra, and year-end W-2s and 1099s are included. A group pays the base per EIN: a three-rooftop group is $150 a month plus $10 per person paid.
Last month’s salaried one-price deals and the used lot’s commission sheet, a tech due to jump from Senior to Master, and a hybrid-heavy fortnight of warranty flags. Twenty minutes with a payroll specialist on a live demo store: if WageTime can’t carry your pay plans, you’ll know before the meeting ends.
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