Service Contract Act payroll, correct to the cent.
RouteWage calculates SCA wages for USPS route operators across all 50 states, and keeps the employment record for every contractor, subcontractor, and employee in one place.
Every uncertain rule is flagged for review. Attorney review underway before external launch.
| Pay line and how it was worked out | Amount |
|---|---|
| Salary for the periodBiweekly salary | $1,615.50 |
| Holiday pay, Labor Day8.00 h at the greater of the WD rate ($17.95) and the regular rate ($21.78)Rate reading open to interpretation. Flagged for review. | $174.24 |
| Overtime, week 28.75 h over 40 at 1.5 × $21.78 | $285.86 |
| H&W cash in lieu, week 140.00 h × $5.92, capped at 40 h (footnote 1) | $236.80 |
| H&W cash in lieu, week 240.00 h × $5.92, capped at 40 h (footnote 1) | $236.80 |
| Gross pay plus H&W, before taxes | $2,549.20 |
Generic payroll doesn't understand the Service Contract Act.
HCR and CDS operators are left to work out wage determinations, health & welfare fringe, and blended overtime by hand, where one mistake risks wage-and-hour liability and your contract standing.
What RouteWage does
SCA pay, worked out exactly. Around it, one record for every contractor, subcontractor, and employee.
- SCA to the cent
- Wage determinations, H&W fringe, and overtime in exact cents. No floating-point rounding, ever.
- All 50 states
- Every state's wage rules encoded from its primary source.
- One worker record
- W-2 or 1099, with the classification decision recorded and signed, plus contracts, routes, wage-determination job, and full rate history. Bank and tax details are masked; documents are stored and retained.
- Stubs and reports
- Compliant pay stubs and the reports you need, generated for every run.
- Full audit trail
- Every calculation is traceable, and every uncertain rule is flagged for review.
Built by an operator.
RouteWage comes from a company that runs USPS routes across multiple states, not a payroll vendor guessing at how your business works.
What comes next
- Coming soon
Pay drivers and file taxes in one place, through a licensed payroll partner, so you can retire the second system.
- On the roadmap
Run your whole workforce, contractors, subcontractors, and employees, from hire to pay, in one system.