Carpenters & Scaffolders · Canada

Cheque Calculator & Hours Log

Your week

DayHoursStatLOANightAlloyPaid as
Week

This week's extras

Not paid if you ride the company bus or plane.
Ticks itself when the week holds the 1st of a month.

Employer

Rates, rules and TD1 tax settings for each employer are on the Settings tab.

Cheque

Take-home$0.00
How it's worked out

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); Ontario's EPSCA power-sector, formwork, drywall, caulking and resilient-floor schedules and the Ottawa 44-hour maintenance schedule; Cape Breton heavy civil; Quebec génie civil and residential; 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 14-and-7 work cycle, the non-industrial 44-hour week options, call-outs and show-up pay, the 12-hour turnaround shift paid as a flat 12 h, 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.

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 or any contractor. This is an estimate, not payroll advice. Your stub and your steward have the final word.