Payroll Lacks Prevailing-Wage Support and Per-Job Cost Journal Entries
Construction companies cannot run prevailing-wage payroll in Gusto. Journal entries only split by location if scheduling is used, so employees moving between jobs require manual accounting fixes and job costing becomes inaccurate.
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