Accurate Prevailing Wage Before Payroll Runs.

Every public works project comes with its own wage determination — a government-published schedule of required rates by trade, location, and work classification. You'll bring those rates into WagePath, and on each time import, we'll automatically associate the correct rate to each employee based on their project and work classification.

If you already provide health insurance, dental, retirement contributions, or paid time off, those benefits can offset the fringe rate dollar-for-dollar — reducing how much you pay as cash in lieu. WagePath calculates the hourly equivalent of each qualifying benefit and applies those credits automatically against each project's fringe requirement. Most contractors find they're covering more of the fringe than they realized, which means overall reduction in labor cost and tax burden.

When an employee splits their week between a prevailing wage project and regular work, two sets of rules apply in order to be compliant. Hours on the certified project must be paid at no less than the prevailing wage rate, including overtime. Any overtime across the full week must also be calculated as a weighted average of all earnings — not just applied at whichever rate the employee was earning when they crossed 40 hours. WagePath handles both automatically, every pay period.

Yes, and WagePath tracks this at the individual time-entry level. An employee who operates equipment in the morning and does general labor in the afternoon can have both sets of hours calculated at the correct classification rate — on the same timesheet, in the same pay period.