How to Track Day-Rate Pay Across Multiple Work Sites
When you work for more than one site or contractor, each one usually pays its own rate and pays separately. The reliable way to keep track is one record per site per day: date, site, units, and any extra pay. A single "days worked" count cannot tell you who owes you what.
Worked example
Site A pays 180 per unit, Site B pays 220. This month you worked 14 units at A and 8 units at B. On one day you did a morning at A (0.5) and an afternoon at B (0.5). Site A: 14 × 180 = 2,520. Site B: 8 × 220 = 1,760. Total: 4,280, but you should expect two separate payments of 2,520 and 1,760.
Steps
- Give each site a short name and write down its pay for 1 unit.
- Log every work day the same evening: which site, how many units.
- If you split a day, log two entries (for example 0.5 at A and 0.5 at B), not one.
- Note extra pay (meals, travel) on the entry for the site that promised it.
- At the end of each site's pay period, total units per site and multiply by that site's rate.
- When a site pays you, mark those days paid so the unpaid balance per site stays clear.
Tips
- Use a different color per site so you can see the month at a glance.
- If sites use different pay periods, total each one against its own dates.
- Export the month to a spreadsheet before settling up with a contractor.
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Wagedays saves each site with one of 8 colors and its rate for 1 unit, lets one day hold several sites, and shows per-site totals with paid and unpaid amounts. You can export a period to CSV. No account, records stay on your phone.
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