A wrong classification
Paying a laborer’s rate for operator work is back pay, and a finding on the job.
Certified payroll
Certified payroll reports, built from the payroll you already ran.
Opareto builds every report from the hours, rates and checks your team already reviewed. Nothing gets re-keyed, and nothing leaves until your team signs off.
- Hours re-keyed for reporting
- 0
- Weekly payroll preparation
- 8 hours → 20 min
- Who files
- Your team
Watch a Friday go right.
One minute: hours come in, every hour gets its rate, the checks run, and the certified report is ready before five.
A wrong classification isn’t a typo. It’s a finding.
Prevailing-wage reports get read by people whose whole job is finding mistakes. Opareto keeps every report tied to the money you actually paid.
A report that disagrees with payroll
If the report says one thing and the checks say another, the checks win and the report is the problem.
A week rebuilt by hand
Every correction and no-work week means another pass through the spreadsheet.
How a week goes with Opareto.
Four steps, from the first punch to a report your team can sign. Each one plays in the film.
Hours come in on their own.
Straight from the timesheets, dispatch board or time app your crews already use. By project, by day, by worker. Nothing retyped.
Watch at 0:11: Hours flow inEvery hour gets the right rate.
Prevailing wage, overtime, shift differentials and fringe, applied from the rate cards for each job and classification. Calculated, never guessed.
Watch at 0:19: The right rateProblems surface before payroll runs.
A missing rate, an unmapped worker, a holiday nobody marked. Flagged on Friday afternoon, while there is still time to fix it.
Watch at 0:28: Pre-flight checksThe report builds itself.
From the payroll you actually ran, checked against the completed journal. Your team reviews it and files it.
Watch at 0:37: The report, generated
Pre-flight
Catch the $0 paycheck before it happens.
Automatic checks run every week before payroll does. Anything that needs a person is waiting for one on Friday afternoon, not discovered on Monday by a worker or an auditor.
- What it checksRates, classifications, overtime, fringe, holidays and job names, for every worker on every project.
- What needs youOnly what it can’t settle on its own, with the reason and who is already looking.
- What happens nextOnce it’s clear, payroll runs from the approved week. Nothing is retyped.
Friday, 2:47 pm
Pre-flight before payroll
Checks run before anything goes to payroll. 4 of 5 passed.
Every hour has a rate412 entries matched to the classification on the jobPassed
Every worker is mapped to payroll6 of 6 workers on Route 1 AbatementPassed
Overtime is ratedPrevailing-wage overtime, not the shop ratePassed
Fringe is accounted forPaid to the plan for 5 workers, in cash for 1Passed
Holiday on Monday is markedConfirm the crew was off. Sal is checking the dispatch boardNeeds a person
The report
Generated, not typed.
Every hour, rate and fringe amount comes from the week you already approved. Deductions and net pay come from the payroll journal. When the two disagree, you hear about it before anything is filed.
- Reviewed by project firstHours and classifications checked job by job, day by day.
- Matched to the journalGross-pay differences flagged while you can still fix them.
- Validated before it’s createdRequired details checked before any file exists. Your team files it.
Certified payroll · Route 1 Abatement
Payroll no. 38, week ending September 26
Ready to fileNorthfield Site Services · Prevailing wage · Final
6Workers
283.5Hours
$17,499.10Gross, matches the payroll journal
Download files
WorkerClassificationHoursRateGrossFringe
Marcus ReyesLaborer46.552.402,606.901,122.97
Dana KowalskiOperator42.061.752,655.251,014.30
Luis OrtegaLaborer51.052.402,960.601,231.65
Priya ShahForeman48.566.203,492.051,171.27
Tom BeckerOperator40.061.752,470.00966.00
Andre WallaceLaborer55.552.403,314.301,340.32
Totals283.517,499.106,846.51
Your state’s format. Your project’s portal.
Formats vary by state, agency and portal. Opareto is set up around the files your projects actually require.
The files each project requires
Opareto is configured around the forms and file formats your agencies and portals actually ask for.
No-work, final and corrected reports
All from the same records, so a correction never means rebuilding the week.
Where every report stands
Prepared, reviewed, submitted. One place to see which projects are current and which are waiting on someone.
Your payroll provider stays
Opareto works alongside the payroll you already run. Nothing to rip out, no second spreadsheet to keep in sync.
Measured, not promised.
8 hours→20 minutes
Weekly payroll preparation
For a contractor with about 70 people on the crew, from timesheets to a run ready for review. The certified reports are built on that same reviewed run.
A posted price. Setup included.
We configure Opareto around your payroll process, your projects and the files your state expects.
Small
$150per month
For a contractor running a handful of public jobs.
- Up to 10 workers
- Up to 3 active projects
Medium
$250per month
The standard plan. No counting heads, no counting jobs.
- Unlimited workers
- Unlimited projects
Large
Custompriced per engagement
For contractors running several entities, states, or filing portals.
- Multiple entities or payroll providers
- Report formats beyond the standard configuration
- Scoped with you before anything is quoted
Compare us to the competition.
Where we match, we say so. Where we go further, it is the check between payroll and the report.
| Capability | Opareto | Points North |
|---|---|---|
| Wage, fringe, and classification rules applied before payroll | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Works alongside the payroll provider you already use | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Certified payroll report generation | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Corrected and no-work payrolls | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Final review and submission stay with your team | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Completed payroll journal checked against the approved calculation | ✓IncludedEvery week, before anything is filed | –Not includedNot published |
| Configured around your source system and weekly exceptions | ✓IncludedBuilt around your process | ~PartlyStandard integrations |
| Modern software with AI oversight built in | ✓IncludedChecks every payroll and flags what needs a person | –Not includedNot published |
Compared against Points North’s public product pages, checked July 2026. Where a capability is marked as not published, it means we could not find it described publicly, not that it is unavailable.
What contractors ask first.
Do you file the reports for us?
No. Opareto prepares the files, validates them and tracks where each one stands. Your team does the final review and submits them through whatever portal the project uses.
Do we have to change payroll providers?
No. Opareto works alongside the payroll provider you already use. It reads the hours going in and the completed journal coming out.
Which report formats do you support?
Formats vary by state, agency and portal. We configure Opareto around the files your projects actually require, and we confirm that before you pay for anything.
What about corrections and weeks with no work?
No-work, final and corrected reports come from the same records, so you never rebuild a week to fix one line.
How long does setup take?
We start with one walkthrough of a real certified payroll week. Setup is done with you, around your rate cards, projects and payroll process, and is included in every plan.
Show us the report that ruins your Friday.
One walkthrough of a certified payroll week: where the data starts, what gets re-entered, which files the project demands.
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