Claver's in-app payroll calculator turns your crew's logged hours into a pay-run preview — gross pay, hours, and overtime by technician, plus per-tech performance reports — so you walk into payroll already knowing what you owe each tech instead of a stack of timesheets and a calculator. It reads the hours your crew already clocked, and it is included on Crew at $39/mo flat.
What it does, what it's built on, and where the line sits. The short version, before the detail below.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What it does | Turns logged hours into a pay-run preview — gross pay, hours & overtime by tech |
| Also shows | Per-tech performance reports for the pay period, alongside the pay totals |
| Built on | The clock-in/out and timesheet data your crew already creates on jobs |
| Best for | Owners who pay an hourly crew and want the gross right before payroll |
| Pairs with | Timesheets, timesheet approval & per-tech reports (all on Crew) |
| Plan & price | Crew — $39/mo flat, up to 8 users, no per-seat fees |
| What it does not do | No tax withholding, filings, or direct deposit — it computes gross, not net |
Pricing is flat per plan, monthly. See the full breakdown on the features page.
The payroll calculator answers one question owners ask every pay period: what do I owe each tech? It reads the hours your crew already logged on jobs and computes gross pay, regular versus overtime hours, and a per-tech performance breakdown — so you walk into payroll with the numbers already done instead of a shoebox of timesheets and a calculator on the truck dashboard.
It is a screen inside Claver that turns logged hours into a pay-run preview. When your techs clock in and out on jobs, those hours flow into timesheets; the payroll calculator reads that data and shows gross pay, hours, and overtime by technician for the pay period, plus per-tech performance reports alongside the pay totals. Before you run payroll, you can see exactly what each tech earned and check it against the real day.
It is not magic and not a black box. It does not guess hours or invent a rate — it takes the time your crew actually logged and the pay rate you set, applies your overtime rules, and shows the math. The point is to get the gross right, so whatever you hand off to your payroll provider, or export, is accurate.
And it is built on data you already have. Nobody re-keys a timesheet into a spreadsheet at the end of the week — the same hours that drive dispatch and the per-tech reports drive the pay math, so the pay run is built on the real day rather than a tired Friday-night reconstruction of it.
Claver also publishes a free, standalone payroll calculator tool that anyone can use to estimate gross and overtime by typing in hours and rates — no account, no login. That tool is a one-off estimator. This feature is different: the in-app payroll calculator is built into Claver for paying customers and pulls the real logged hours from your crew's timesheets automatically, then adds the per-tech performance reports. One is a quick public estimate; the other is your actual pay run, drawn from the work your crew already did.
The flow follows the work your crew already does — there is no separate data entry step:
Because the payroll calculator sits inside the same system as timesheets and per-tech reports, you are not exporting hours to a spreadsheet and re-typing rates into a separate calculator. The pay run is built where the hours are logged.
It earns its keep for any owner who pays an hourly crew and wants the gross right before payroll — and it pays off most where the week is full of clocked hours that have to be turned into pay every single Friday.
It helps any trade that runs W-2 hourly techs — HVAC, plumbing, handyman crews in tune-up season — but the shops paying a full crew by the hour every week are the ones who feel it most.
The calculator doesn't just total hours — it brings the per-tech performance reports into the same view. So when you look at what a tech earned, you can see it next to what they did over the period. The pay run and the performance picture sit side by side, which is the context an owner actually wants when payroll comes around.
The payroll calculator is part of the Crew plan — $39/mo, up to 8 users, flat. No per-seat fees. On Crew it comes alongside the rest of the time-and-team toolkit it runs on:
The Starter plan ($19/mo) does not include the payroll calculator — it covers CRM, online booking, recurring and subscription billing, the customer portal, and payments, but not the timesheets and per-tech reporting the calculator runs on. If paying an hourly crew is what you need help with, Crew is the plan. Compare the tiers on the features page.
Fair is fair — here is exactly where the line sits, so you can decide with eyes open:
If you want to skip the keying, the Business plan ($59/mo) adds a Gusto payroll export — a one-click file of hours and earnings formatted to import straight into Gusto, which then handles the tax, filing, and direct deposit. The payroll calculator gets the gross right on Crew; the Gusto export on Business carries it the last mile into a processor. For the great majority of trade shops, the calculator's pay-run preview is exactly what payroll day needs — and if you've outgrown that, the Business path is an honest thing to know before you sign up rather than after.
Let your crew clock their hours, let the payroll calculator do the gross-pay, hours, and overtime math by tech, and review the pay run before payroll instead of after. The calculator, timesheets, and per-tech reports all come together on Crew at $39/mo — flat, month-to-month, no per-seat fees. Need it to feed Gusto directly? That's the Business plan at $59/mo. See how the pieces fit on the features page, or pick the industry built for your trade on the industries overview.
The hours are already in Claver. Let the payroll calculator turn them into gross pay, hours, and overtime by tech — on Crew at $39/mo, flat, no per-seat fees.
The payroll calculator, timesheets, and per-tech reports come together on Crew at $39/mo — flat, month-to-month, no per-seat fees. Start in minutes.