MandateYour payroll
runs paychecks.
Ours runs
governments.
Union step increases, retroactive pay adjustments, GASB compliance, and pension fund integrations — automated end-to-end. No manual journal entries. No spreadsheet archaeology at audit time.
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We scope every assessment to your entity type and scale.
Exhibit A — Riverside County, CA
Nine days to run
a single payroll.
4,200 employees across 11 bargaining units. Each union contract stored in a different spreadsheet, manually cross-referenced every cycle. Step increases calculated by hand. Retroactive adjustments logged in a shared drive no one had read permissions to.
After Mandate — 6 Months Later
One day.
Zero manual entries.
All 11 union contracts ingested directly into the rules engine. Step increases trigger automatically on anniversary dates. Retroactive adjustments calculate and post without a single journal entry.
Exhibit B — City of Mesa, AZ
DOL audit notice.
No documentation.
2,800 employees. Finance team received a 30-day DOL audit notice in October. The payroll system couldn't export an audit trail. FLSA overtime records were split across three systems. The controller spent six weeks manually reconstructing two years of records.
After Mandate — 2024 DOL Audit
Zero findings.
Audit closed in 11 days.
Every compliance document pre-packaged in Mandate's audit export module. FLSA calculations documented with timestamped rule logic. The DOL examiner closed the audit in 11 days — the fastest in Mesa's history.
Exhibit C — Tucson Unified School District
1,200 seasonal hires.
One pay period.
Every August, TUSD onboards substitute teachers, classified staff, and part-time aides before the first bell. The legacy system required HR to manually enter each record. Three staff members worked evenings for two weeks. 87 paychecks were wrong on the first run.
After Mandate — August 2024
All 1,200 processed.
4 hours. Zero errors.
Mandate's batch onboarding module ingested the district's HR export directly. Benefits elections, bargaining unit assignments, and pay grade placements applied automatically. Every employee received a correct first paycheck on day three.
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47-Point Government
Payroll Compliance
Checklist
Built from 200+ government payroll audits. Covers FLSA, GASB 68/75, DOL audit trail requirements, union CBA documentation standards, and pension fund reconciliation procedures.
Government Payroll Compliance Checklist
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