How a Multi-State Structural Contractor Cut Payroll Processing Time by 97%

Titan Structural Group reduced weekly payroll and reporting from 40+ hours to 1 hour a week - while supporting multi-union, multi-state infrastructure and federal projects with real-time job costing and automated certified reporting.

The Trayd Difference

"We started with Trayd when we had just three workers in the field. Today, we’re 42 union employees strong and Trayd has been a major driver of that growth. Payroll and reporting once took over 40 hours every week. Now, our entire back office runs in under an hour, freeing us to focus on growth, operations, and better project execution"

Gary Chui

Owner, Titan Structural Group

97%

Payroll Time Saved

Weekly payroll and reporting cut from 40+ hours to about 1 hour.

1,000hrs

Administrative time reclaimed

Time returned annually by eliminating manual payroll and reporting workflows.

Faster compliance reporting

Certified payroll and project reporting consolidated from four reports into one workflow.

< 1hrs

Payroll preparation and approval

From time entry through approval and certified submission.

Contractor Background

Titan Structural Group is a multi-trade contractor operating across Virginia and neighboring states, supporting large-scale infrastructure and federal projects. Their portfolio includes Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, DCU Center, Norfolk Naval Air Station, Newport News Naval Air Facility, and other Navy facilities.

Titan’s work spans multiple trades and union locals (including Local 7, Local 28, and DC51), with crews ranging from just a few workers to more than 40 on a single project. Every job demands strict certified payroll reporting, precise union wage compliance, and clear visibility into labor costs.

As Titan expanded, back-office complexity grew just as quickly.

The Challenge

Before Trayd, payroll and reporting were largely manual, consuming significant time and creating operational friction.

A typical week required:

~20 hours compiling reports
~20+ hours running payroll
Multiple reports and payroll workflows stitched together by hand
Limited visibility into job-level labor costs
Difficult tracking across states, trades, and union locals

Payroll became both the control point and the bottleneck.

With labor representing the majority of back-office spend, delayed and fragmented data made it difficult to understand project performance and nearly impossible to make proactive decisions.

Titan needed a system that could:

Support certified payroll across unions and states
Centralize reporting and compliance
Improve job-level tracking
Eliminate manual processes
Scale with increasingly complex projects

The Solution

Titan implemented Trayd to replace spreadsheets and disconnected tools, consolidating payroll, compliance, and reporting into a single system.

With Trayd, Titan centralized:

Payroll and certified reporting
Worker data and union compliance
Project-level labor tracking

Field time flows directly into payroll. Payroll flows directly into reports. No rework, no manual stitching.

Instead of assembling multiple reports each week, Titan now runs payroll and generates certified reports directly from Trayd, with labor data automatically mapped to the correct jobs, workers, and pay types.

The Results

The operational impact was immediate. What previously required more than 40 hours per week across payroll and reporting now takes approximately one hour.

Titan gained: