Production sets the pay. Employment type doesn’t.
Piece rate, hourly, and salary crews all close out through the same pay period: what got logged against the rate table that priced the job, reconciled day by day, with premiums and PTO tracked on their own lines instead of folded into one number.
How it works
Log it once. It prices the bid and it pays the crew.
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Log the day
A crew member enters what got done: quantity against a service on the rate table, for themselves, a team, or a sub crew, from the phone in the field.
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Pay comes off the same table
Each line pays out at the rate already sitting on that service, the same one that priced the bid. Nobody re-keys a number to get it into payroll.
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A premium stays its own line
If the job carries a premium, it’s a percentage added to the day’s production total, tracked in its own field and shown as its own row when a manager drills into a day.
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The period closes and locks
A manager finalizes the pay period and the totals snapshot into payroll history. Reopening a finalized period takes an admin and a reason, and both get logged.
One engine
Piece rate, hourly, salary: one report, no special cases.
The pay-period report doesn’t branch on what an employee’s file says they are. It pulls the same production records for everyone, splits logged hours into regular and overtime off a weekly 40-hour threshold using the wage on file, and totals what actually got produced.
Hours don’t decide the check. When production clears what the hours-based number would have paid, the difference lands on its own bonus line instead of getting averaged into an hourly figure.
Piece rate
Pay is the sum of what was logged against the rate table for the period. That is the entire calculation.
Hourly
The same daily record carries the hours worked. Regular and overtime split off a weekly 40-hour threshold, using the wage on file.
Salary
Runs through the identical pay-period report and lock as everyone else on the job. There is no separate salary calculation bolted on beside it.
On their own line
A premium and PTO don’t hide inside the base rate.
Two numbers on top of production pay are easy to blend into a rate and hard to untangle later. PieceWrk keeps both as their own tracked fields instead of folding them into the payout.
Job premium
A percentage set on the job, stored on its own field on every production record tied to it. It adds to the day’s total; it doesn’t change the service rate itself, and it shows up as its own row the moment a manager drills into a day.
PTO accrual
A percentage of that day’s production, but only from services marked PTO-eligible, and only once someone has 60 days on the job. The rate comes from a tenure tier or a per-employee override, whichever applies, tied to the specific day it was earned on.
Privacy
One person’s report never carries a coworker’s number.
A crew member checking their own pay for a period gets exactly their own figures back. No coworker totals, no coworker wage, nothing keyed by someone else’s employee id.
The number that decides the check was never the wage on file to begin with, so there’s nothing sensitive sitting next to it to leak by accident.
Common questions
- Does overtime work the same on a piece-rate crew?
- The report still splits every employee’s logged hours into regular and overtime off a weekly 40-hour threshold, using the wage on file. That split doesn’t decide the check: it’s compared against what was actually produced, and anything production clears above the hours-based number shows up as its own bonus line instead of getting averaged away.
- How is a job premium different from the base rate?
- A premium is a percentage set on the job, tracked in its own field on every production record tied to it. It adds to the day’s total rather than changing the service rate, and when a manager drills into a day it shows up as its own line, never blended into a payout.
- Does PTO accrue for a piece-rate employee?
- Yes. It accrues as a percentage of that day’s production, but only from services marked PTO-eligible, and only once someone has 60 days on the job. The rate comes from a tenure tier or a per-employee override, whichever applies.
- Does PieceWrk file payroll taxes or run direct deposit?
- No. PieceWrk closes out the numbers behind the check: hours, production, premiums, PTO, and holiday pay for the period, locked once a manager finalizes it. Getting the money to the crew and to the government still runs through whatever you use today.
Run a real pay period through it.
Bring a period with a premium job and a PTO request already sitting in it. That’s the one where tracked-separately actually shows.