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Rebecca Hensley's payroll week used to start Monday, swallow Tuesday, and end whenever the reports were finally done.

Paper timecards. Manual certified payroll. Then re-keying all of it into the California DIR site, as many as 25 reports a week. The team padded bids because nobody wanted to guess wrong on prevailing wage.

Hensley's Paving runs on Construction Partner. Most payroll providers can't touch it. eBacon can.

What changed:
• Field hours come in from an app and feed straight into the reports
• Fringe benefits and apprenticeship ratios get tracked automatically, not by hand
• When her first federal Davis-Bacon job came up, our team worked through it with her line by line

The crew was fully on board in about three weeks. And the bids don't need padding anymore.

In Rebecca's words: "When I call eBacon, I get a real person, a real human being, somebody who has knowledge, somebody who's responsive, someone who genuinely wants to help. If they don't know the answer, they'll find it."

Full story: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07ZCQD0
Watch the webinar: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07ZCRn0

Twenty-five years ago today, ironworkers, operating engineers and laborers showed up at Ground Zero and stayed nine months.

They cut steel, cleared debris and carried people home. Many are still living with the health effects of that work.

Today we remember the 2,977 lives lost on September 11, 2001, the first responders who answered the call, and the tradespeople who worked the pile.

Tomorrow. 10 AM AZ. 60 minutes.

Real math on:
- The $9/hr OT trap most contractors don't know they're paying
- The credits nobody claims (avg $8,200/EE/yr across our client base)
- Annualization — the one word quietly shrinking your fringe credit

Then Jason Knight walks our NEW FRINGE calculator live. Then you pull up the calc on your phone or computer and run YOUR own numbers at the end.

Not a demo you watch. A workshop you leave with your own dollar figure from.

Last shot to register: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07JSb60

One OT hour. WA electrician. Public works job.

Fringe as cash → $143.52/hr
Fringe into trust → $134.52/hr
Difference: $9.00 per OT hour. Every crew. Every job.

Now do that math across 1,000 OT hours a year.

That's just the OT trap. The bigger number is the credits nobody claims. Average opportunity we've seen across our client base? $8,200 per employee, per year.

Sept 10, 10 AM AZ, we run the actual calculator on YOUR real numbers. Live.

SIGN UP HERE: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07sshq0

One payroll decision, three places it shows up: overtime, labor cost, profitability.

Gary Zimmermann and The Construction CPA break it down THIS FRIDAY, August 28. Sign up below!!!

⏱️ Cash fringe isn't just a payroll decision. It can have a ripple effect on your labor costs.

When fringe is paid as additional cash wages, contractors need to understand more than what appears on the paycheck.

There are bigger questions to ask:

👉 How does cash fringe affect overtime calculations?
👉 What does it mean for total labor cost?
👉 And how does that cost ultimately show up in job profitability?

That's where payroll and construction accounting meet.

On August 28, we at The Construction CPA and Gary Zimmerman of eBacon will break down the financial and payroll implications contractors should understand when paying fringe as cash.

CASH FRINGE → OVERTIME → LABOR COST → PROFITABILITY

One payroll decision can reach further into your financials than you might expect.

🎙️ Fringe Benefits for Contractors: What You Need to Know
📅 August 28, 2026
🤝 The Construction CPA × eBacon

Join us for the conversation.

Half the industry is still running crews off paper timesheets and a group text.

Alex Kramer went on the American Subcontractors Association of Arizona with host Steven Cramer of Newbridge Business Solutions and Tim Bates of HENSEL PHELPS to talk about what's actually changing on job sites. Time tracking. Managing crews. Getting information from the field to the office without three phone calls and a truck ride.

Not the shiny stuff. The stuff that decides whether you make money on the job.

🎧 https://na2.hubs.ly/H07mJLn0

P.S. A Kramer, a Cramer, and a Bates walk into a podcast. The transcript never stood a chance.

Certified payroll is not glamorous. Bona Fide Fringe Trust administration is somehow even less glamorous. Construction Executive named both to their 2026 Top Construction Technology Products™ list anyway.

Over 1,000 firms get invited to nominate every year. No fee, and not everyone makes it. So no, you can't buy your way onto this one.

Full story on the blog here: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07lHCp0

Missed a certified payroll deadline?

Breathe. It's usually fixable.

Yes, a late report can mean withheld payments, a flagged contract, and an audit you didn't ask for. But there's a right way to catch it up, and a wrong way that makes it worse.

We broke down exactly what happens when you miss the deadline, and how to get back on track before it costs you.

Read it here: https://na2.hubs.ly/H078j_H0