How Turner captures crew hours from every jobsite — and cut certified payroll prep from 3 days to under an hour.

The challenge: paper timecards, prevailing wage, and days to certify

Turner Construction, founded in 1902 and one of the largest general contractors in the United States, runs thousands of craft workers across dozens of active jobsites at any given time. Crews clocked in on paper timecards that had to be collected, keyed in, and reconciled by hand — a process that introduced errors and consumed days of payroll staff time every cycle.

On public projects, payroll had to comply with prevailing-wage rules: different rates by trade, by classification, and by jobsite. Generating certified payroll reports in WH-347 format required pulling data from multiple sources, applying the right rate tables, and verifying compliance — a task that took the payroll team the better part of three days per cycle.

Any mistake wasn't just an accounting problem — it was a compliance risk that could affect Turner's ability to bid on future public projects.

The solution: capture field hours at every jobsite

Turner replaced paper with digital field time capture. Crews clock in from a mobile app or an on-site kiosk, with GPS geofencing that ties every punch to the right jobsite. No guesswork, no paper to collect at end of shift.

Hours are tagged by trade and cost code at the source — before they ever reach payroll. That means the data is clean, compliant, and ready to run through rate tables the moment the cycle closes.

Certified payroll & job costing, done automatically

The real win is compliance automation. Captured hours run through prevailing-wage and union rate tables by trade, and Tanca generates certified payroll reports in WH-347 format automatically — no manual compilation required.

At the same time, every labor hour is allocated to its project and cost code in real time. Project managers can see labor spend against budget without waiting for the month-end spreadsheet reconciliation.

The results: hours to certify, not days

After rolling out Tanca, certified payroll reports that once took about three days are now generated in under an hour. The payroll team reviews, confirms, and files — rather than spending days building the report from scratch.

Field hours are captured 100% digitally with jobsite-verified GPS. There is no manual re-keying into payroll, and labor cost is visible by job code in real time — giving project teams a live view of where the budget stands.