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Assignar vs mJob

Two field-operations platforms for self-perform contractors that capture crew hours, equipment and field data once and send them to payroll and accounting. Assignar positions itself as a margin control platform for civil and specialty contractors, built around scheduling people and equipment on the same job, with award and plant hire rates applied automatically and an AI assistant (Milo) in Assignar Pay. mJob is a construction time tracking and field management system built around GPS and biometric clock-in, labor law rules and ERP and payroll integrations. Partly like-for-like: both cover time capture, equipment hours and field forms, but Assignar leads with scheduling and mJob with time clocks. Vendor pages read Nov 1, 2026; desk research from vendor sites, no winner.

DESK RESEARCH FROM VENDOR SITES. Compiled from vendors' public websites (accessed Nov 1, 2026). Vendor claims are not verified by Means & Methods Lab. No scores or rankings.

In short: Assignar (Crew, equipment & compliance scheduling; no public prices (quote / sales)) vs mJob (Time tracking & field management; no public prices (quote / sales)). Facts last checked Nov 1, 2026. No winner declared; desk research from vendor sites.

Side by side

Assignar vs mJob: vendor-published facts side by side
Sheet rowAssignarmJob
CategoryCrew, equipment & compliance schedulingTime tracking & field management
AI role (our label)AI features added to established productNot AI-first
What it doesField-operations platform for civil and specialty contractors, which its homepage now calls a construction operations margin control platform. It describes live job margin against the bid budget; award, bargaining agreement and plant hire rates (wet, dry, standby and travel) applied automatically, with payroll and invoicing from the same record; and unbilled work and open variations surfaced while the job runs. Core features: drag-and-drop scheduling of people and equipment on the same job, timesheets and dockets from the field, digital forms, plant prestarts and defects, compliance tracking (tickets, licenses, orientations, expiry alerts), geo-location on timesheet and form submission, reporting, and CRM, accounting and ERP integrations; workforce-management pages describe matching skills to tasks, predicting limited resources and managing subcontractor licenses. The menu lists Assignar Pay, Assignar Operations, Milo, CraneOps, InfraOps and TrafficOps. Milo, its AI Construction Expert in Assignar Pay, answers plain-English questions from your uploaded contracts, enterprise bargaining agreements (EBAs), tickets and dockets and shows the source clause (the page's examples: when a shift triggers overtime, or which clause supports a variation); because Milo sits inside the established platform, we tag it AI features added. The homepage targets asphalt, concrete, drilling, piling, excavation, earthworks, non-destructive digging, rail, scaffolding, crane, demolition, traffic management and more. Customer counts (which differ between pages), illustrative margin-leak percentages, efficiency and hours-saved figures and customer quotes are vendor material and are not used.Construction time tracking and field app for labor, equipment, materials and field reporting; the vendor says it has served construction since 1994, and its plans page says it is built for heavy civil and union compliance as well as general contractors. It offers a GPS-enabled mobile time clock; biometric clock-in (the Stride 80 touchless palm vein reader, the ATS Maximus terminal, The Prodigy and a Severe Duty NEMA 4X enclosure, plus the SecuGen Unity 20 Bluetooth scanner paired with an iPad app with custom clock-in questions and a Spanish interface); geofences with admin rules for when GPS is off (do nothing, warn or block) and alerts for out-of-zone punches; offline punching; time automation and labor law rules; bill and pay rate management; equipment hours and maintenance logs; material usage; field requisitions and purchase orders; daily logs, custom forms and analytics. A site banner introduces mJob Essentials as streamlined time tracking for growing crews. ERP and payroll integrations listed include Sage, Vista, Spectrum, QuickBooks, CMiC, ADP, Acumatica, Foundation, Procore, Oracle, Computer Guidance, Explorer, Paychex, COINS and SAMpro, and it builds custom integrations in house. The pages we read do not describe AI, so we tag it Not AI-first. Support-rating, verification and customer payroll claims are vendor content and are not used.
Who it's forCivil and specialty contractors' schedulers, field supervisors, operations and payroll teams (US, Canada, Australia per sales numbers on site).Construction trades.
Pricing (as publicly stated)Not publicly listed. The pricing page FAQ says pricing is tailored to your team's needs with a custom quote through Book a Demo, and that you can test drive Assignar before committing. (The dollar figure on the page is a customer savings claim, not a price.)No public prices on the Plans & Pricing page: mJob Essentials (Get Started: field time entry, GPS geofencing, labor law compliance, time automation rules, crew and foreman management, an Essentials Control Dashboard, ERP integrations including Sage, Acumatica and QuickBooks, offline mode) and mJob Enterprise (Contact Sales: adds daily logs, equipment and material tracking, custom ERP integrations, union and prevailing wage compliance, advanced cost tracking and analytics, multi-company and multi-division support and a dedicated implementation team) are described by features only; the page says the plans are designed to scale from 20 to 2,000 employees. Confirm current pricing with the vendor.
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Facts last checked: Nov 1, 2026. Prices change; check the vendor page before relying on them.

Where the vendor descriptions differ

  • Scheduling: Assignar's crew scheduling page describes drag-and-drop allocation of workers, crews and equipment in a timeline view based on availability and qualifications, schedule changes from the mobile app, bulk scheduling with recommendations and instant job confirmations from the field. The mJob pages we read list crew and foreman management but do not describe a crew scheduling board.
  • Time capture: mJob lists a GPS-enabled mobile time clock, geofences with alerts for out-of-zone punches, offline punching, fingerprint and touchless palm vein terminals, and Bluetooth fingerprint scanners paired with an iPad app. Assignar describes timesheets and dockets submitted from the field, with geo-location timestamps on timesheet and form submission.
  • Pay rules: mJob lists time automation rules for overtime and breaks, labor law compliance, bill and pay rate management for multiple contracts and unions, and union and prevailing wage compliance in its Enterprise plan. Assignar says award, bargaining agreement and plant hire rates (wet, dry, standby and travel) are applied automatically, with payroll and invoicing off the same record.
  • Equipment and materials: Assignar schedules machines and operators together and logs plant prestarts and defects against the machine. mJob lists equipment time tracking, operating costs, maintenance logs, material usage, field requisitions and material purchase orders.
  • Compliance: Assignar tracks worker tickets, licenses, orientations and subcontractor documents, with alerts before they expire, and lets schedulers match skills to tasks. The mJob pages we read describe labor law and pay-rule compliance, not worker credential tracking.
  • Systems: mJob lists ERP and payroll integrations including Sage, Vista, Spectrum, QuickBooks, CMiC, ADP, Acumatica, Foundation and Procore, and says it builds custom integrations in house. Assignar lists ERP and accounting integrations and publishes API docs.
  • AI tags: Assignar is tagged AI features added to an established product because of Milo, which answers plain-English questions from uploaded contracts, bargaining agreements, tickets and dockets and shows the source clause. mJob stays Not AI-first; the mJob pages we read do not describe AI.
  • Pricing (checked Nov 1, 2026): neither publishes prices. Assignar says pricing is tailored with a custom quote through a demo, and offers a test drive. mJob shows Essentials (Get Started) and Enterprise (Contact Sales) with no figures, and says the plans scale from 20 to 2,000 employees.
  • Not used here: Assignar's customer counts, margin-leak percentages and speed claims, and mJob's years-in-business, support-rating and payroll-time customer quotes. Facts for both tools come from vendor websites (desk research).

Paraphrased from the sources listed above. Vendor claims are reported as claims.

What users say

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  • Whether Assignar supports biometric clock-in hardware, or mJob schedules crews and equipment on a board
  • How each handles US union and certified payroll reporting on the same job
  • What each costs for the same crew size
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  • How long did setup and training take, and who on your team did it?
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