Configure hourly, salary, day, and quantity- or weight-based piece earnings, then add overtime, double time, premiums, bonuses, guarantees, minimums, and deductions in one reusable worker pay policy.
Inside the app
Actual Farmroute screens from the farm and employee demo accounts.
Each named profile contains its base earnings and the optional rules that belong to that type of work. Farms can keep field labor, packing, piece work, and supervisors separate without configuring every worker from scratch.
Use Hourly, Salary, Day, or Piece Rate as the foundation. Piece Rate can measure either quantity or weight and can override its general rate for specific farm fields.
Overtime and double time define threshold bands. Premiums respond to hours, time windows, weekdays, tasks, or fields and apply the configured pay effect.
These sections cover policy beyond the base rate: a bonus can reward an event or attendance condition, a guarantee can protect a minimum amount, and a deduction can record a named recurring amount for downstream review.
How it works in practice
Hourly base earnings multiply each eligible clock session’s exact duration by the retained hourly rate. The schedule is context; the recorded clock session is the source of worked time.
Salary stores both an amount and a weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or annual period. Day stores a value for an eligible worked day. Keep the method aligned with the farm’s real agreement instead of forcing every arrangement into an hourly rate.
Piece Rate begins with the thing being produced. Quantity mode supports named collection units with independent rates. Weight mode supports metric or imperial measurement. Both can use a general rate and optional field-level overrides.
An overtime rule starts at a threshold and can optionally stop at another threshold. Choose minutes or hours, reset daily, weekly, monthly, or annually, and apply a base multiplier or base additional amount.
Double Time uses its own threshold, optional end, reset cycle, and base multiplier. A common structure is overtime after eight daily hours and double time after twelve, but the profile stores the farm’s configured policy.
Premiums can trigger from hours worked, a time window, a weekday, a completed task, or an assigned field. The effect can add to the base, multiply it, or award a fixed bonus according to the selected rule.
Bonus triggers cover task completion, time worked, consecutive or specific-day work, attendance and reliability, shift milestones, and manager-applied events. Payout can be flat, per unit, or per occurrence.
A guarantee applies per shift, day, week, or pay period. It can require that the worker worked that day, met a minimum-hour threshold, completed a task, or satisfied a combination of those conditions.
Deductions can recur every pay period, day, week, two weeks, month, or year, with an option to limit them to worked days. They remain clearly identified rather than being hidden inside a base rate.
Roles and responsibility
Farm profiles create and edit Pay Profiles, configure their base earnings and rules, and assign the appropriate profile to each worker record.
Clock sessions and eligible piece-producing tasks retain the profile context that applied when the work occurred. The resulting estimate can be reviewed without turning the Pay Profile guide into a snapshot-repair workflow.
Complete workflow
Use an operational name that tells an administrator where it belongs, such as Hourly Field Team, Harvest Piece Rate, Packing Day Rate, or Field Supervisor Salary.
Select Hourly, Salary, Day, or Piece Rate. Avoid combining Hourly and Salary in the same profile because Farmroute flags them as conflicting compensation methods.
Set the hourly rate, salary amount and period, day rate, or the piece name, measurement type, units, and general rate.
If a particular field pays differently, enable only that field and enter its override; all other fields continue using the general piece rate.
Set the threshold band, factor, reset cycle, pay effect, and any overlap or override behavior. Add more rules when the policy contains more than one tier.
Define the later threshold and multiplier independently so overtime and double time do not become one ambiguous rule.
Choose the work condition—hours, time, weekday, task, or field—and then define the extra pay effect.
Choose the task, time, attendance, milestone, or manager trigger, then set the payout basis and fixed bonus amount.
Select the period and guarantee value, then enable only the worked-day, minimum-hour, or completed-task requirements that apply.
Name each deduction, choose its recurrence, set the amount, and decide whether it applies only to days with work.
Save the complete profile and select it on the relevant worker record before eligible work begins.
Clock sessions and piece task records use the assigned profile context. Later profile edits are intended for future work rather than silently rewriting completed source records.
Questions and answers
A profile can use Hourly, Salary, Day, or quantity- or weight-based Piece Rate base earnings. Its currently exposed settings are Overtime, Double Time, Premiums, Bonuses, Guarantees/Minimums, and Deductions.
Quantity uses named collection units with a pay amount and quantity basis. Weight uses metric or imperial measurements such as kilograms or pounds. Both support a general rate and optional field-specific overrides.
Yes. Overtime, Double Time, Premiums, Bonuses, Guarantees/Minimums, and Deductions can each contain multiple rules when the farm’s policy requires them.
A premium can respond to hours worked, a time window, a day of week, a completed task, or an assigned field, then apply an additional amount, multiplier, or fixed bonus effect supported by the editor.
It should not. Completed clock sessions and eligible piece records retain the pay context captured for that work, while editing the live profile applies to future work.
No. Farmroute can record named deduction rules for review, but the displayed earnings estimate remains gross. Farmroute does not calculate tax withholding, direct deposits, filings, or net pay.
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