Payroll & Workforce Management for Electrical Businesses

The workforce challenges electrical businesses face

Electrical contractors run licensed master and journeyman electricians alongside apprentices — each on a different pay rate and a different supervision ratio. Add service calls, new-construction phases, prevailing-wage jobs, and license-renewal deadlines, and the back office spends more time chasing paperwork than running the business.

Time tracking by job and license level

Accurate hours start with knowing who worked, where, and at what license level. GPS-verified clock-ins tie each hour to a job site and a person, stop buddy-punching on staggered start times, and feed real hours straight into payroll and job costing.

Payroll with license tiers and prevailing wage

Electrical payroll mixes apprentice, journeyman, and master rates, overtime, on-call service pay, and prevailing/Davis-Bacon wages on public work — often in the same week. The system should apply the right rate to the right hour, handle 1099 subs, and run it all in one cycle.

Scheduling and labor cost control

Schedule service and project crews to demand, keep apprentices paired with the right journeyman, and flag overtime before it lands. Tie labor cost to each job so you can see which work actually makes money.

Licensing and compliance

Apprentice-to-journeyman ratios, license and continuing-education renewals, and state wage-and-hour rules all carry penalties when they lapse. Track every license and expiry, keep records audit-ready, and let the software apply federal and state overtime automatically.

How MyCo helps electrical teams

MyCo brings scheduling, GPS time tracking, multi-rate payroll, license tracking, and HR into one app built for field crews — so pay tiers, prevailing wage, and renewals stop slipping through the cracks. See the electrical solution or book a demo.

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