For labor-intensive organizations, payroll is one of the most difficult administrative challenges. Trusted to run dozens of North America's largest and most complex union and non-union construction payrolls, PENTA Payroll Software can drastically reduce the overhead required to manage and improve your payroll and labor cost control processes, from mobile field time entry to analytics and reporting:

• Multi-State, Multi-Union, US and Canadian payroll processing
• Integrated with PENTA Construction Accounting Software
• Integrated with PENTA Job Cost Accounting Software
• Automatic Accounting for Inter-departmental and Inter-company payroll charges
• Compliant EEO, Davis-Bacon and Worker's Compensation reporting and processing

Field Labor Time & Expense Reporting

Web-based and PENTA Mobile Field software capabilities expedite the collection, transmission and approval of labor time, expenses, union agreements and other payroll data from the field. PENTA provides field software solutions for professionals, crews and field service technicians:

• Mobile Field Service
• Mobile Field Reporting
• eTimesheets
• eExpense

Labor Cost Review

PENTA Project Review and Forecast Entry makes it easy for Project Managers and Financial, Operations and Executive management to stay on top of summary level labor cost information, drill down into cost detail if necessary, and spot potential problems early.

• Analyze labor independent of processing payroll checks
• Labor hours and dollars by Job, Cost Type and Costcode
• Drill down to specific labor distribution detail
• View payroll fringe benefit, tax & insurance expense in detail
• Analyze productivity rates by day, week, month or job to date

Payroll Burden Allocation

PENTA allows you to choose from several payroll burden allocation methodologies. Apply actual labor burden expense on cost plus jobs, use estimated overhead allocation rules on lump sum projects, use standard charge rates to distribute Project Manager or other executive salary expense to your jobs and use any combination of these rules on a single job:

• Actual Burden Expense: Fringes, Taxes & Insurance
• Standard Charge Rates
• Estimated Burden Allocation as a percentage of base labor or rate/hour

Payroll and Timecard Analytics, Reporting

PENTA Payroll Software facilitates continual performance improvement. Whether by Executive Dashboard or Business Analyst interface, Penta's award winning Business Analytics software helps construction managers analyze past performance for planning, identify exceptions for action and trend current performance for forecasting based on over 100 types of payroll, timecard and employee information:

• Labor Cost Analysis
• Labor Productivity Analysis
• Labor Trend Analysis
• Exception Reporting for Current Period payroll processing