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: travel time and mileage, the Alberta 14-and-7 work cycle (6.5 h straight plus 3.5 h at time and a half a day), 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, the 18¢/km tool transport allowance, the separate Alberta Millwrights Maintenance agreement, GPMA long-service vacation above 6%, and the monthly dues of every local (none of them publish the amount: enter it from your stub). Not covered because the agreements aren't public: Saskatchewan Local 1021 (the CLRS copy is redacted), Manitoba Local 1443 (the CLRAM agreement isn't published; the UBC wage lookup shows a May 2026 journeyperson rate of $46.55 and $1.36 an hour field dues, but not the rest of the agreement), Newfoundland and Labrador Local 1009 (login only) and Prince Edward Island (Local 1178 works there but no PEI agreement is public). Also not modelled: BC's first-aid $1.50 and the 122.5% / 125% general-foreperson tiers, the BC apprentice $1.00/h savings-plan deduction, the BC and Ontario dues steps ($1.80 in 2028; $1.72 / $1.97), the Ontario apprentice 50¢/h assistance-plan deduction, Ontario commuting allowances and travel time, the EPSCA power-sector agreements, Quebec's isolated-site (B-1 / C-1) and civil-engineering grids, Nova Scotia small-job schedules, New Brunswick's 20% night shift, apprentice RRSP tiers, NMA / GPMA maintenance rates and the statutory holiday pay that 11.1(A) puts on the weekly cheque, Nova Scotia mainland rates for weeks before May 7 2026, and living-out amounts that step mid-agreement (change the rate in Settings on the date). 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.

Made by a union worker, for union workers. Independent tool. Not made by or affiliated with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, the Millwright Regional Councils, 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.

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 your phone made up at random. It lets us count how many people arrive by your link and install the app. It's a different number from the usage count above, and your own phone never sends it to us. We only see it when someone opens your link, 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 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.