Case study

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.

PAYROLL

9
7
%

Payroll time saved
COMPLIANCE

4
x

Faster compliance reporting
ADMINISTRATIVE

1
0
0
0
hours

Administrative time reclaimed
PREPARATION

<
1
hours

Payroll preparation

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.

"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

Challenge

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

  • ~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.

  • 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.

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

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.

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:

  • Simplified tracking across multi-state, multi-trade projects
  • Real-time visibility into labor costs
  • Faster certified payroll generation
  • Cleaner compliance across six union locals

Trayd unlocked deeper insight into:

  • Revenue by project
  • Labor movement and allocation
  • Worker-level task breakdowns
  • Cleaner compliance across six union locals

The all-in-one construction back office operating system.