A masonry crew is two trades on one scaffold, often under two different union cards, and any week that blends a mason’s rate with a tender’s owes overtime on the blended average. WageTime runs masonry payroll the way the wall actually staffs.
Masonry pay is layered like the work: piece customs on top of hourly law, restoration rates on top of new-work rates, a mason’s local on top of a tender’s local. Generic payroll flattens the layers. The wall notices by Friday.
A signatory shop remits to the bricklayers’ funds for the masons and the laborers’ funds for the tenders: two CBAs, two fringe packages, two dues checkoffs, all earned on the same wall in the same week. Month-end, somebody rebuilds both remittance stacks by hand from one set of timesheets.
Crews have quoted brick work at $350 to $375 per thousand in trade-forum threads for years, and a good mason lays 300 to 500 a day. Federal overtime doesn’t care: past forty hours, the piece money converts to a regular rate and owes a premium, and the spreadsheet that does that conversion is usually wrong.
Repointing an existing facade is its own trade on public work: determinations list pointer, caulker, cleaner apart from the bricklayer and the mason tender, and it prices differently. The same mason lays new block Monday, restores old joints Friday, and the certified payroll has to split that week by the work performed, not the job title.
Tuckpointing sits in its own row of OSHA’s silica table: the respirator class changes when mortar grinding passes 4 hours in a shift, and 30 or more respirator days in a year trigger medical surveillance. Both thresholds are measured in hours, and the hours live on a whiteboard, if anywhere.
Below 40 F, cold-weather masonry provisions stack up by temperature band until only a heated enclosure will do. In cold regions the wall winters: a December of layoffs, a quiet January, and an April of rehire paperwork done from zero, while the payroll bill pretends nothing changed.
Union payroll runs as an add-on, scoped and priced on the demo, and pays both cards off one WageTime run: the bricklayers’ package and the laborers’ package, each fund computed from the same week of hours.
| Fund | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| IPF pensionBAC Local 4 | 486.0 hrs | $2,964.60 |
| IHF health & welfareBAC Local 4 | 486.0 hrs | $4,592.70 |
| BAC SAVE 401(k)BAC Local 4 | 486.0 hrs | $1,093.50 |
| Laborers pension & welfareLaborers Local 172 | 328.0 hrs | $3,644.08 |
| Dues checkoffBoth locals | 2.5% of gross | $1,187.63 |
Replaces the month-end afternoon spent rebuilding two fund spreadsheets from the same week of hours.
Some do, by standing custom, and WageTime runs it as it is: brick by the thousand, block by the unit, veneer by the foot, tenders hourly beside them, and overtime still counted in hours on the weighted-average rate.
Replaces the calculator tape that converts a brick count into a legal paycheck, and the argument it starts.
Public work classifies pay by the work performed, and masonry splits finer than most trades: the same mason lands on the bricklayer line Monday and the pointer, caulker, cleaner line Friday. WageTime runs certified payroll as an add-on, scoped and priced on the demo.
| Classification | Worker | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Pointer, caulker, cleanerRepoint, west elevation | Alvaro D. | 24.0 |
| BricklayerNew CMU, stair core | Alvaro D. | 16.0 |
| BricklayerCut and lay veneer | Marcus J. | 38.0 |
| Pointer, caulker, cleanerWash down and seal | Sofia V. | 31.5 |
| Laborer, mason tenderMix and scaffold load | Petey R. | 40.0 |
Replaces the Friday-night argument about whether pointing pays the mason rate, settled by a guess.
Grinder time becomes its own WageTime payroll line: who ran mortar removal, on which facade, for how long, on which shift, coded to cost codes the silica rule’s task-hour thresholds can actually be checked against.
| Worker | Cost code | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Alvaro D.Mortar removal, west face | TUCK-GRIND | 3.5 |
| Marcus J.Mortar removal, parapet | TUCK-GRIND | 5.0 |
| Sofia V.Repoint, hand tools | TUCK-POINT | 22.0 |
| Junior L.Stair core block | LAY-CMU | 32.0 |
| Petey R.Scaffold and mixing station | SCAF-TEND | 38.5 |
Replaces the whiteboard tally of who ran the grinder, wiped clean before anyone asked for it.
The wall winters and WageTime winds down with it: bulk offboarding in December, rehires onto retained records in April, and a price that follows the roster, so a quiet February costs the $50 company fee.
| Month | People paid | Invoice |
|---|---|---|
| OctoberFull crew, walls closing in | 22 | $270.00 |
| NovemberCold-weather · heated mortar | 22 | $270.00 |
| DecemberBulk offboarding Dec 12 | 9 | $140.00 |
| FebruaryCompany fee only | 0 | $50.00 |
| AprilRehired from retained records | 19 | $240.00 |
Replaces the January invoice priced like July, and the April afternoon of re-keyed onboarding paperwork.
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 demoYes, through union payroll, offered as an add-on, scoped and priced on the demo: multiple unions, locals, and classifications in one run, with dues checkoff, fringe calculations, and fund contribution handling inside payroll. Bring both CBAs and your fund list to the demo and we’ll walk your actual locals through it.
Per-thousand pay runs as a per-unit pay code, and overtime still counts hours: past forty, or in a week that mixes piece and hourly pay, the premium computes on the weighted-average regular rate automatically. The conversion happens in the run, itemized on the stub, not on a calculator tape.
Repointing, caulking, and cleaning existing masonry usually falls under a dedicated pointer, caulker, cleaner rate rather than the bricklayer line. WageTime’s certified payroll, offered as an add-on, scoped and priced on the demo, classifies hours by the work performed, so a week mixing new block and restoration lands on the right lines of the WH-347.
Code grinder time to its own cost code: hours land per worker, per task, per shift, so the 4-hour question and the 30-respirator-day question have a written answer. Training completions stay on each employee’s file. The exposure control plan, the competent person, and the medical program remain yours.
A quiet month costs the $50 company fee, because pricing is $10 per person actually paid that month. The bulk termination wizard closes the season in one pass, and spring rehires reopen each worker’s retained record instead of starting new-hire paperwork from zero.
$50 per month per company plus $10 per person paid that month, with unlimited runs, so weekly Fridays, off-cycle finals, and job-close bonuses are all included. Certified payroll and union payroll are add-ons, scoped and priced on the demo. No long-term contracts; cancel anytime. Onboarding and migration are full-service and paid.
A week of mason and tender hours, your piece sheet if you pay by the thousand, both locals’ rate sheets if you’re signatory, and the wage determination if the job is public. Twenty minutes with a payroll specialist on a live demo company: the piece codes, the blended overtime, both fund packages, and the WH-347, off one run.
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