Every Friday afternoon, in moving companies across the country, the same ritual plays out. The ops manager opens a spreadsheet. They open a calculator. They pick up the phone and call dispatch to confirm who actually worked the Johnson job on Tuesday — because the spreadsheet says three crew members, but dispatch remembers four. They type in numbers, fix a typo, recalculate tips, chase down a missing signature, and three hours later they have a payout sheet that is still probably wrong.
The crew pay calculator in MoveRight replaces that ritual with one screen.
What the Crew Pay Calculator Does
The OTR (Over the Road) calculator now includes a dedicated crew pay section. When you open a job, it lists the crew members pulled directly from that job’s events — not a manually maintained roster, not a sticky note from dispatch, but the actual people who clocked into the job in MoveRight.
From that list, the operator selects which parts of the job each crew member participated in. A helper who showed up for the load but not the drive is paid for the load. A driver who ran the long haul gets the long-haul portion. A second-day crew member who only worked the unload is paid for the unload. Participation is selected per segment, not assumed per job.
Tips can be added per crew member. The calculator tracks total owed versus total paid per person, so you can see at a glance who still needs to be paid out and who is settled. No more “I think I paid Carlos already” — the screen tells you.
The OTR Job Breakdown Tab
The crew pay calculator sits inside the OTR Job Breakdown tab, which aggregates values from every other tab in the job. Instead of flipping between royalty calculations, packing and bulky item totals, third-party service charges, truck and travel cost breakdowns, and flat-rate profitability metrics, the Breakdown tab pulls them together.
That matters for crew pay because the numbers feeding the pay calculation — royalty share, packing labor allocation, truck cost recovery, FP profitability — are already in the job. The operator doesn’t re-key them. The calculator pulls from the same values the dispatcher entered when the job was booked and the driver confirmed when the truck rolled.
When a crew member’s pay depends on a share of packing revenue or a percentage of the truck cost recovery, those numbers are already there. The operator selects participation, adds tips, and the calculator does the rest.
The OTR Labor Tracking Dashboard
For operators running multiple jobs across a week or a payout period, the OTR Labor Tracking dashboard handles the next layer up.
It manages paid versus unpaid labor at the job-by-crew-member level. Every job a crew member worked on shows up. Every unpaid segment shows up. The operator can see who owes what across the whole payout period, not just one job at a time.
The bulk action — “Pay all jobs in this group” — lets an operator settle an entire payout period for a crew member in one click instead of opening each job, confirming the amount, marking it paid, and moving to the next.
Payout periods are grouped, so an operator running weekly payouts sees all of this week’s jobs together. Unpaid labor that is overdue is highlighted, so nothing slips through the cracks when a crew member left and nobody remembered to settle their final payout.
eventCrewMember Reporting
The crew data now flows into dynamic reports through a new group-by option: eventCrewMember. When an operator builds a report and groups by crew member, they get event-level crew data — which jobs each person worked, which segments they participated in, what they were owed, what they were paid.
This is the same data the calculator uses, exposed in the reporting layer. An ops manager who wants to see crew efficiency across a quarter, or labor cost as a percentage of revenue by crew composition, can build that report without exporting to a spreadsheet and pivoting manually.
Spreadsheet vs. Crew Pay Calculator
| Spreadsheet | Crew Pay Calculator | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to pay one crew | 20–40 minutes per job | Under 2 minutes per job |
| Crew list source | Manual entry, verified by phone | Pulled from job events automatically |
| Tips | Tracked in a separate column, often forgotten | Added per crew member, included in total owed |
| Owed vs. paid tracking | Reconciled by memory or a second sheet | Tracked on screen, per crew member |
| Bulk pay across payout period | Not possible — one job at a time | ”Pay all jobs in this group” in one click |
| Reporting | Export, pivot, hope the formulas hold | eventCrewMember group-by in dynamic reports |
| Accuracy | Depends on who typed it | Depends on the events that were logged |
What This Means for Ops
The Friday afternoon ritual used to take three hours. With the crew pay calculator, it takes ten minutes. The crew list is already there. Participation is selected, not reconstructed. Tips are added in the same screen. Owed versus paid is tracked per person. The payout period is settled with a bulk action. The data flows into reports without a spreadsheet in between.
That is the point. The ops manager who used to spend Friday afternoon on the phone with dispatch is now done before lunch and moving on to next week’s schedule.
MoveRight is the moving company CRM that turns crew pay from a Friday afternoon spreadsheet exercise into a one-screen workflow — pulling crew from job events, tracking owed versus paid, and feeding the same data into dynamic reports.
See the crew pay calculator in action
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