Prevailing Wage and Certified Payroll Management

Managing prevailing wage payrolls can be extremely time-consuming and costly. In the past, it may have been easier to pay an employee(s) the prevailing wage for an entire day or pay period rather than struggling with the issue of breaking it down job by job. And, it was time consuming for your payroll administrator to track.

With the ComputerEase integrated approach, tracking hours and prevailing wage data is quick and easy. Simply enter the prevailing wage rate for a specific project or job and ComputerEase handles the rest. Employees will be paid the appropriate rates for the applicable job.

ComputerEase tracks all prevailing wage data for you by job so that you can easily generate an accurate certified payroll report with the click of a button. Saving you time, effort and money.

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Director - Feldkamp Enterprises

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It lets us proceed with eh, especially uh, on the up front side of the job. When we, When we set up a budget for the project it helps us to establish our budget for our labor cost based on our cost of past projects. It helps us understand the manpower needs that we’re going to have to have on the project based on the schedule. Uh, It lets us use a mix of our manpower, both the low dollar and the higher dollar uh, personnel, based on the schedule. Uhm, Sometimes you may need more people up front, less people on the back side. It helps us understand the way we need to manage our people to meet our budget costs.

Accounting Supervisor - Grote Enterprises

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Right now we have approximately 300 employees between all of the companies. We've been as high as 700. Uhm, ComputerEase is great as far as the union companies. We get all of our uh, union reports. Uh, we don't have any problems with documentation. Job costing is a big, big issue in uh, the construction industry, and we can get very detailed with where our labor goes. Uhm, and as far as the nonunion companies uhm, probably our biggest challenge is prevailing wage projects. And uhm, ComputerEase, even when we run into a, a difficult situation uh, they always come up with a solution for us. We had a, a situation come up with the Kentucky prevailing wage not too long ago, and with the prevailing wage cash, and they were able to provide us with a formula to enter into the system that solved the issue for us.

President - Stenger & Company

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Probably the biggest one is the uh, prevailing wage report. You know, again, not poking fun at the QuickBooks and the lower end software uh, programs out there, but they don’t handle the prevailing wage in the set aside plans. Uh, our clients that have prevailing wage can utilize QuickBooks, I mean, utilize ComputerEase’s prevailing wage module, which is basically integrated with the payroll and integrated with job costing, and it basically will take uh, a payroll function in QuickBooks that takes probably ten hours, and the clients can do that in about three or four hours and all of the certified payrolls are done. Uh, you know, we, we, we harp on that. The other one is probably the retainage due report. Uh, the lower end systems don’t handle retainage due, nor retainage held from vendors. Uh, ComputerEase does a real good job in tracking retainage due, tracking unbilled retainage due uh, and allows the contractor to then analyze those reports.

Payroll Manager - Jostin Concrete

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With the Computer Ease system, the prevailing wage rates are set up right in the job costing, so this transfers right over to the payroll system. So you don’t have to go back and recalculate rates for employees when they’re on a prevailing wage job.