Cheque Calculator & Hours Log

Everything below is for the employer picked on the Settings tab. Rates step on the agreement's own dates and the calculator uses the column in force for the week you're looking at. Hours are your hours on site, breaks included, the way the agreement's overtime rules count them.

• Filling in as foreperson: set that day's role under the date. Each day's hours are paid at that day's rate; overtime follows the same day rules.
• Holidays are built in for your agreement and moved to the day they're observed. Untick Stat to switch one off, or tick it for a day your job observes instead.
• CPP and EI (2026): CPP 5.95% after a $67.31 weekly exemption until $4,230.45 for the year, then the second CPP at 4% on earnings between $74,600 and $85,000. EI 1.63% until $1,123.07. Quebec: QPP 6.3% to $4,479.30, EI 1.30% to $895.70, QPIP 0.43% to $442.90. The log counts these up week by week, separately for each employer.
• Income tax uses the 2026 federal and provincial payroll formulas (CRA T4127, July 2026 edition) the way payroll does: the week's pay times 52, union dues taken off first, with each province's extras (BC tax reduction, Ontario surtax and health premium, Quebec abatement). Real cheques usually land within a few dollars. Quebec provincial tax is an approximation of the Revenu Québec formula.
• Living-out allowance and travel are reimbursements. They're normally tax-free when you file a TD4 with your employer, and they don't get vacation or holiday pay. Tick "This employer pays living-out" on the Settings tab and new days you log will have LOA on.

Not included: Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island (no current carpenters' agreement or wage schedule is public, or only as an unreadable scan); the BCRCC 2026 renewal and BCRCC scaffold agreements (not posted), and the BCRCC commercial agreement's alternate Lower Mainland industrial rates (Schedules A3.1 and A3.2); Ontario's EPSCA power-sector, formwork, drywall, caulking and resilient-floor schedules and the Ottawa, Kingston and Smiths Falls maintenance schedules; Cape Breton heavy civil; Quebec génie civil and residential, and the isolated-site, Baie-James and north-of-the-55th rates (Annexes B-1 and C-1); Quebec's daily travel allowance, Ontario and Cape Breton travel and zone allowances, BC periodic leave and initial and terminal travel; height, bosun-chair, Red Seal and other small premiums; separate afternoon and night shift rates where they differ; Alberta travel time and mileage, the construction 14-and-7 work cycle (CLR-A 7.09: 6½ h straight plus 3½ h at time and a half each day), the non-industrial 44-hour week options, call-outs and show-up pay, the maintenance fallback to day pay when a rotation is cut short of 14 days (GPMA 17.102), the pensioner wage for members 71 and over, union dues amounts the locals do not publish (enter them from your stub), initiation and social fees, and GPMA long-service vacation above 6%. Employer pension, health and training contributions aren't on your cheque; the pension part is shown as a memo line under the cheque and on the Year tab.

Yours missing? Send it from the Settings tab (Send us your agreement). If the app doesn't have it yet, you get a free year when it's added.

Made by a union worker, for union workers. Independent tool. Not made by or affiliated with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, CMAW, any of their locals or councils, any employer bargaining association (CLR Alberta, CLR-BC, CLRS, the Ontario employer bargaining agencies, the ACQ, NSCLRA, CLRA NL and others), the CCQ, the National Maintenance Council, the General Presidents' Maintenance Committee or any contractor. This is an estimate, not payroll advice. Your stub and your steward have the final word.

Your hours, pay, employers and settings stay on this phone. There's no account and no sign-in, and we never see your log.

What we do receive:

• When you open the app: an anonymous count. It includes a random number your phone makes up, the phone type, your province, which poster, QR code, key card or link brought you here (for a key card, the last six characters of its key; for a friend's share link, their share code), whether it was opened inside Facebook's or Instagram's browser, and whether the page was on screen. It doesn't include your name or email.
• When you pass the app on: the Share and Copy link buttons and the QR code under Get it on your phone carry a share code that belongs to your phone. It lets us count how many people arrive by your link and install the app, and it gives you a free month for every friend who buys a licence through it, up to a year. The code is worked out from a private half that stays on your phone; once a day the app sends that private half to ask how many of your friends have bought. It's a different number from the usage count above, and it doesn't tell us who you are.
• If you buy a key: your email, passed to us by Stripe and kept with your key so we can find it if you lose it. Stripe handles your card, and we never see the number.
• When you turn on a key: your phone's random number, so one key works on up to three phones.
• If you send an agreement: the files, the local and agreement you typed, your email if you give it, and your phone's share code so a free year can reach it. The files are only used to add the agreement to the app, and are deleted within 90 days.
• If you use the feedback box: your message, your email if you give it, the agreement, job class and province you had selected, your phone's browser type, and the same random number as the usage count.

We don't sell or share any of it, and there are no ads or tracking scripts. The site is hosted by Cloudflare and payments go through Stripe. They see what any web host or card processor sees.

To see or delete what we hold about you, send a note through the feedback box with your key or email.