Project
Payroll

Trade services & facilities maintenance

Trade services payroll software.

Service businesses mix short calls with project work across several awards. In Australia, Project Payroll takes approved hours from field service software, interprets the right award per worker, applies vehicle and meal allowances and costs labour to jobs and cost codes.
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Coverage

What do we interpret for trade services & facilities maintenance?

Multi-award: electrical, plumbing, MA000020 — per worker classification, as at August 2026. Agreements are read and built by us, then maintained as rates and increments step.

  • Base hours38.00 hrs @ $34.44 — Electrical Grade 5$1,308.72
  • OvertimeInterpreted automatically3.00 hrs @ 150%$154.98
  • Meal allowanceInterpreted automatically3 occasions @ $17.55$52.65
  • Vehicle allowanceInterpreted automatically1 week @ $46.20$46.20
  • Gross$1,562.55

How hours arrive

How do hours reach payroll?

Flow · from simPRO / AroFlo / Deputy, no CSV

  1. Step 1

    Timesheets

    Approved on site

  2. Step 2

    Award & EBA

    Interpreting award…

  3. Step 3

    Payroll

    Paid, STP2 filed

  4. Step 4

    Super

    Every pay run

  5. Step 5

    Job costs

    Live to cost codes

See the full integration directory for the exact shape of each connection.

Trade services & facilities maintenance payroll questions

Do you connect to simPRO and AroFlo?

Yes, as timesheet sources for approved hours; we tier each connection honestly on the integrations page.

Can workers sit on different awards in one pay run?

Yes. Interpretation is per worker, not per company.

Are service calls costed individually?

Yes, down to the job the hours were booked against.

Is licence-based classification handled?

Yes, mapped to award grades at setup and maintained by us.

Reviewed August 2026. General information, not legal advice.