Fringe Benefits: You're Probably Doing It Wrong (And It's Costing You $$$)

See a LIVE fringe calculator run your crew's numbers on screen. In a few minutes, you'll see exactly what your current setup is costing you, and how much you're leaving on the table.

Nobody's breaking the law here. That's the point.

The most expensive fringe mistakes aren't the ones that get you a back-wage bill. They're the quiet ones. The fringe dollars you pay twice because you're not taking credits. The fringe you're paying out as cash when it could go into a trust. Both are fully compliant. Both are money walking off your jobs.

The Wage and Hour Division recovered $259 million in back wages last year, a five-year high, and fringe miscalculation is one of the leading causes. But the bigger number for most contractors isn't the fine. It's the credits they've never taken. For one contractor we're working with right now, that gap is roughly $900,000 a year.

In 60 minutes, we'll show you both ways fringe costs you money, and a live tool that puts a real dollar figure on yours.

What you'll walk away with:

• The two ways to get fringe wrong, and why the expensive one is 100% legal
• The overtime mistake that means you're overpaying on every prevailing wage check (hint: the premium goes on the base, not the fringe)
• Fringe credits: whether you're paying for the same dollars twice, and how much you could take back
• Annualization, the thing that quietly shrinks the credit you're owed
• What to actually look for in a fringe trust, starting with whether your crew can get to their money
• A live fringe calculator that runs a real crew's numbers, so you can run your own in seconds

Who it's for:

Payroll managers, controllers, and owners running public works projects who'd rather keep their fringe dollars than hand them over for nothing.