Pipefitters · Alberta

Cheque Calculator & Hours Log

Log your hours day by day and see every cheque: straight time, time and a half, double time, vacation and holiday pay, dues, CPP, EI, an income-tax estimate and subsistence. The year view adds it all up. Built for UA Local 488 in Alberta: the industrial and commercial MECH agreement and the NMA and GPMA maintenance agreements are built in, with Alberta payroll tax. The week shown first is an example; change any box.

Your week

DayHoursStatLOANightAlloyPaid as
Week

This week's extras

Not paid if you ride the company bus or plane.
Ticks itself when the week holds the 1st of a month.

Employer

Rates, rules and TD1 tax settings for each employer are on the Settings tab.

Cheque

Take-home$0.00
How it's worked out

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 charts 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, call-outs and show-up pay, missed coffee breaks, the 8-hour-rest rule, the 10-on/4-off and 9/80 rotations, the 12-hour turnaround shift paid as a flat 12 h (entering 12 h here pays 10 straight + 2 double plus the paid meal half-hour, half an hour more than NMA 15.901), fabrication-shop and pipeline agreements, and GPMA long-service vacation above 6%. Employer pension, health and training contributions aren't on your cheque, so they aren't shown.

Independent tool. Not made by or affiliated with the United Association, UA Local 488, CLR Alberta, the National Maintenance Council or any contractor. This is an estimate, not payroll advice. Your stub and your steward have the final word.