Calculate the daily salary for employees working on a daily basis, calculate monthly salary for other employees, monitor attendance using GPS at various locations rather than fixed biometric readings, ensure that CLRA compliance is taken care of regarding contractual and sub-contractual laborers, and keep the worker database of BOCW welfare board and process F&F on project completion.
A contractor running three concurrent sites, paying workers by the day through sub-contractors, with a migrant workforce from four different states, faces payroll complexity that was never designed for a monthly-salaried office environment.
Construction workers usually get paid on a daily rate basis rather than a monthly salary basis. Reconciliation of attendance based on daily rate at various construction sites every week is an inefficient process subject to conflict.
Sites don't have fixed biometric devices, and workers move between sites. Attendance captured on paper registers at site level is always one reconciliation away from an error in wages.
Most workers on construction sites come via contractors or sub-contractors, which means principal employer responsibilities for wage register maintenance and other things are not considered by payroll systems.
Every construction worker between 18 and 60 who has worked 90 days in the last year should be registered with their state BOCW welfare board. Tracking which workers are registered is an employer obligation most sites handle, at best, informally.
Labourers working in construction projects come from other states. The provisions of the Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act mandate displacement allowance, journey allowance, and separate documents for such labourers.
During the completion of a phase of the project, many labourers will require their F&F at the same time. It becomes a matter of concern to settle the labourers manually.
Construction companies run several distinct workforce categories at once, across multiple sites, often in multiple states simultaneously. TankhaPay is built to handle all of them from one login.
Day workers earning minimum wages prescribed by the government or higher based on daily attendance, including ESIC/PF.
Daily Rate from AttendanceWorkers deployed through labour contractors, tracked separately with CLRA compliance registers and principal employer documentation.
CLRA CompliantWorkers from other states tracked with displacement and journey allowance, and the separate documentation the ISMW Act requires.
ISMW Act RecordsElectricians, plumbers, carpenters, and all such skilled workers working on piece-rate basis or monthly terms.
Trade-Rate or MonthlyProject engineers, site supervisors, and site managers on fixed CTC-based payroll, with PF, TDS, and gratuity computed correctly.
Full PF + TDS + GratuityOn-site teams in corporate, procurement, and accounting did payroll processing and consolidated the site payroll together on a monthly basis.
Consolidated Head Office ViewRunning payroll for a construction company means handling daily-rate workers, multi-site GPS attendance, and contract labour compliance all in the same cycle. Here is how TankhaPay simplifies every step.
Bring direct workers, contract labour, migrant workers, and site staff across every project site into one secure hub. Site-wise PT registration, BOCW registration records, and contractor data tracked in real time.
Workers report their attendance through the mobile application, where their location is also verified through GPS. The daily wage rate calculation takes place directly based on attendance, using the correct minimum wage rates for each state and skills category.
Every obligatory deduction is done with accuracy - PF and ESIC to eligible employees, TDS to employees, and correct PT applied for all sites' states. Contract labor managed according to CLRA registers, and principal employer registers kept accordingly.
Wages either weekly or monthly, will be credited directly to the worker's account or issued in accordance with your salary cycle. As soon as the phase of a project is over, F&F of those workers who leave will be calculated in bulk.
CMMI Level 5 is a certification held by fewer than 1% of Indian tech companies. It means the quality standard your site wage and statutory compliance records are processed under is the same standard trusted by the Government of India.
There is no other competitor for Indian payroll software that has such accreditation. It gives you another level of assurance of the way your payroll will be managed.
We have processed payroll through every significant Indian labour law change since 1998. Labour Code 2025 is not a new challenge for us - it is the latest in a 26-year track record.
Hundreds of workers across sites that move, in states that change - GPS attendance and multi-site payroll are not an add-on for us. This is the workforce shape TankhaPay was built for.
Run it in-house for your site HR team. When project scale demands a dedicated payroll team, switch to managed services on the same platform - no migration, no data loss.
From GPS site attendance to CLRA compliance registers - every construction-specific requirement handled by the system, not rebuilt from a paper register after the fact.
Wages based on daily rates are determined through attendance data with state-specific minimum wages for each skill level (Skilled/Semi-Skilled/Unskilled). Monthly salaries are also paid to management and staff in the site through the platform.
Worker presence is validated through the mobile application through their GPS location, which confirms the site as well; thus, the attendance is verified instantly without needing to reconstruct it from the paper sheet.
Contract and sub-contractor labour is tracked separately from direct employees, with CLRA wage registers, form submissions, and contractor compliance records maintained - so the principal employer's obligations are covered even when the contractor changes.
The BOCW welfare board registration is done individually for each worker. The inter-state migrant workers are accounted for through displacement allowance, journey allowance, and the other documentation which is mandated by the ISMW Act.
After the completion of the project phase where large amounts of manpower are let off, TankhaPay handles the processing of F&F in bulk in the prescribed statutory period, taking care of all wage arrears and leave encashment.
Four steps. No paper attendance reconciliation. No manual daily-wage calculation. No compliance gaps when a labour inspector arrives.
Workers check in via GPS mobile app at each site. Attendance is captured at the point of work, not filled from memory at week-end.
Site-verified, not assumedDaily rates, minimum wages, allowances, PF, ESIC, and multi-site PT calculated automatically with current statutory rates and skill categories.
Per worker, per site, per daySite manager reviews and payroll head approves. Anomalies flagged before disbursement - not discovered when a worker disputes their wages.
Disputes prevented, not resolvedWages credited to bank accounts. PF, ESIC, PT, TDS - all filed. CLRA and BOCW records updated. Done before the statutory deadline.
Full compliance in one clickBuilt for India's construction and infrastructure complexity - not general-purpose payroll software with a construction label added to the header.
Daily wages computed from attendance data, at state-correct minimum wage by skill category, alongside monthly staff payroll.
Check-in using geofencing on unlimited number of locations without requiring any biometric facilities in all locations.
Wage and muster rolls of contract laborers maintained, with record keeping done contractor-wise.
BOCW welfare board registration records tracked per worker, with ISMW Act documentation for migrant staff.
Displacement and journey allowance for inter-state workers computed and paid correctly per ISMW Act obligations.
Large batches of workers settled at project completion within the statutory window, without per-worker manual processing.
PT applied per site's registered state automatically, across projects running simultaneously in different states.
Payslips and PF balance accessible via mobile app for every worker, including daily-wage staff, in regional languages.
Real-time site-wise labour cost, contractor spend, and headcount - project managers see live cost, not a month-end extract.
Updated for Labour Code 2025, revised minimum wages, and BOCW notifications - before the inspection, not after the notice.
Highlighted pills are construction-specific compliance requirements that generic payroll tools frequently get wrong or omit entirely.
One payroll dashboard, correct wages and compliance for every worker, every site.
Practical guidance for HR and operations leaders managing multi-site payroll for construction and infrastructure projects.
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How daily and weekly wage payroll for construction site workers works, and why the traditional manual-register approach leads to errors.
PF, ESIC, PT, minimum wages, and CLRA - every statutory obligation construction employers carry, with deadlines and filing detail.
The questions HR and project leaders at construction and infrastructure companies ask before committing to a payroll system.
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