Analyze a pay system.
Enter what the records show. The analyzer separates facts, classifications, measurements, legal tests, and proof—then identifies what remains unresolved.
Facts → Classify → Measure → Test → Verify → Act
California + federal · source checked July 18, 2026
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Record worksheet · six-stage method
Enter what the records show.
- 1Facts
- 2Classify
- 3Measure
- 4Test
- 5Verify
- 6Act
Analytical output · educational record reconciliation
6 independent findings
8 hours to classify and reconcile across 6 independent dimensions.
This instrument does not reach a legal conclusion.- Starting route
- Wage Order 7 starting route
- Role
- technician
- Pay methods
- piece-rate
- Hours to reconcile
- 8
Facts to reconcile
- 8 hours require classification and reconciliation.
- Identify the actual piece-paid unit before measuring other time.
- Reconcile piece-rate rest and recovery compensation.
- Classify and reconcile other nonproductive time.
Predicates to test
- Identify the actual piece-paid unit before measuring other time.
- Test every federal dealership-exemption predicate.
Records to pull
- Raw time punches and edits
- Payroll register and wage statement
- Schedule plus system, production, or deal timestamps
- Original punches and edit history
- Schedules and manager approvals
- DMS, CRM, training, access, alarm, and message events
- Current piece-rate formula
- Flag or production ledger
- Repair-order activity definitions
- Rest/recovery hours and weekly rate calculation
- Wage statement rest lines
- Piece earnings, other compensation, and overtime premiums
- Time or reasonable-estimate method
- Activity definitions and system timestamps
- Any hourly base paid for every hour in addition to piece earnings
- Establishment business and ultimate-purchaser sales facts
- Actual weekly duties and time allocation
Expand each question independently.
An entered fact can support one point while leaving another unresolved.
018 hours require classification and reconciliation.46 worked hours and 38 accounted hours were entered; the accounted total is fewer than the worked total.Reconcile
Basis
The two period totals differ, but the difference does not identify the activity, pay category, rate, or reason.
Why it matters
A numerical difference can affect minimum-wage, overtime, rest, nonproductive-time, and record questions only after the underlying intervals are classified.
Proof to pull
- Raw time punches and edits
- Payroll register and wage statement
- Schedule plus system, production, or deal timestamps
02The time record is marked incomplete.The user did not identify a complete time record for the period.Verify
Basis
Required hours records and activity evidence perform different functions and should be reconciled rather than substituted for one another.
Why it matters
Missing required records can change the evidentiary path, but absence is not by itself a finding about the amount or legal character of work.
Proof to pull
- Original punches and edit history
- Schedules and manager approvals
- DMS, CRM, training, access, alarm, and message events
03Identify the actual piece-paid unit before measuring other time.Piece-rate work occurred during the entered period.Predicate
Basis
Flat or book-rate output and hours worked answer different questions; the plan’s promised unit determines what activity falls inside or outside that compensation.
Why it matters
Classification determines which intervals require separate treatment and prevents aggregate pay-period averaging from obscuring the promised unit.
Proof to pull
- Current piece-rate formula
- Flag or production ledger
- Repair-order activity definitions
04Reconcile piece-rate rest and recovery compensation.Rest/recovery compensation was entered as not-shown.Verify
Basis
Section 226.2 supplies a separate weekly rest/recovery rate and corresponding statement fields when piece-rate work occurs.
Why it matters
The rest-rate numerator, divisor, minimum floor, hours, and gross amount differ from the overtime regular-rate calculation.
Proof to pull
- Rest/recovery hours and weekly rate calculation
- Wage statement rest lines
- Piece earnings, other compensation, and overtime premiums
05Classify and reconcile other nonproductive time.Other nonproductive-time compensation was entered as unknown.Verify
Basis
Section 226.2 treats employer-controlled time not directly related to the piece-paid activity as a distinct category, subject to an hourly-base route in subsection (a)(7).
Why it matters
Waiting, training, meetings, cleanup, and repair-related documentation cannot be classified merely from the absence of a flag.
Proof to pull
- Time or reasonable-estimate method
- Activity definitions and system timestamps
- Any hourly base paid for every hour in addition to piece earnings
06Test every federal dealership-exemption predicate.The federal section 13(b)(10) route was selected for the technician role.Verify
Basis
The route depends on a qualifying nonmanufacturing establishment and actual duties as a qualifying salesman, partsman, or mechanic primarily engaged in selling or servicing qualifying vehicles.
Why it matters
The route concerns federal overtime only; minimum wage, records, hours worked, and California obligations remain separate.
Proof to pull
- Establishment business and ultimate-purchaser sales facts
- Actual weekly duties and time allocation
How to use the output
Treat it as a reconciliation plan.
Match the time, payroll, production, plan, duty, and establishment records to the same worker and dates. A finding identifies a question or predicate; it does not establish the answer.