Project
Payroll

Why us

Built for project payroll, by people who were sick of watching it done badly.

We started Project Payroll because we'd seen too many businesses lose hours to manual processes and generic systems that treat construction as an afterthought. Built around the project, not the pay period. We read your agreement, build it into the engine, maintain it forever, pay super every run, publish our pricing and answer the phone at any hour.
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15 minutes, your EBA, no sales script.

What we believe

What do we refuse to trade away?

  • Specialists beat platforms

    A generalist payroll product treats construction as an edge case. Every clause we build is for a crew on a site.

  • Interpretation is the product

    Anyone can multiply hours by a rate. Reading an agreement and applying it consistently every week is the work.

  • Pricing should be public

    If the price depends on how the call goes, the price is a negotiation tactic. Ours is on the pricing page.

  • Support is not a tier

    24/7 human support at no extra charge, because payroll problems arrive at 4am.

  • Uploading is a defect

    A CSV between approval and payment is an unlogged change to pay data. We removed the step.

  • Show the clause

    Interpretation you cannot inspect is a black box. Every line names the rule that produced it.

Site fence banner reading: construction payroll that reads the EBA so you don't

Comparison

How are we different to generalist payroll?

Not a feature war. These are the six rows builders actually change providers over.

  • Support

    Typical payroll platforms
    Business hours, ticket queue
    Project Payroll
    24/7, real humans, free

  • EBA setup

    Typical payroll platforms
    Paid configuration, weeks
    Project Payroll
    $2,500 per agreement, then maintained at no extra cost

  • Industry

    Typical payroll platforms
    Generalist
    Project Payroll
    Construction only, team from the industry

  • Timesheets

    Typical payroll platforms
    CSV import
    Project Payroll
    Captured in CrewTime or synced, already approved

  • Super

    Typical payroll platforms
    Clearing house admin
    Project Payroll
    Paid every pay run, automatic

  • Job costing

    Typical payroll platforms
    Export and reconcile
    Project Payroll
    Live to your cost codes

Compliance

How do you stop an underpayment before it's wage theft?

Underpayment is rarely a decision. It's a missing clock off, a break nobody recorded, a fatigue limit crossed on a hot week, or a new agreement that landed while payroll kept running the old rates. Since January 2025 intentional underpayment is a criminal offence, so the fix has to happen before the run, not in a back-pay project.

Every run is checked against the clauses we built for you and the exceptions are put in front of a human while they're still cheap to fix.

Payroll risk card flagging missing clock offs, missing meal breaks, employees over fatigue limits and new EBAs detected

About us

Who is behind Project Payroll?

A team from construction and payroll operations. We're deliberately quiet about individual names for now and let the product and the pricing page do the talking.

Why construction only?

Because construction payroll is where award and agreement complexity is highest and generalist tools fail most expensively. Narrow focus is what makes the interpretation engine trustworthy.

Do you sell through resellers?

We work with white label and referral partners, both documented publicly on this site rather than negotiated in the dark.

What are you not good at?

Retail rostering, hospitality tips, franchise payroll and anything without a cost code. If your payroll isn't project-based, we're the wrong choice and we'll say so.

Reviewed August 2026.