Miter Review

About Miter

Miter is a modern, venture-backed construction HCM built exclusively for contractors, founded in 2021 in San Francisco. Where the established construction-payroll specialists (eBacon, Payroll4Construction) often feel like older, compliance-first systems, Miter pitches an integrated, modern platform: human capital management (HRIS, payroll, recruiting, benefits, training) plus field operations and expense management in one product, with automation for the construction-specific hard parts — certified payroll reporting, union fringes, and complex multi-state requirements. It was named Construction Tech Review's "Construction-Based Payroll and HR Software of the Year 2025."

For a contractor, Miter's appeal is the modern, all-in-one approach to construction workforce management: payroll and HR that understand prevailing wage and union complexity, tied to field ops and expenses, in a more contemporary interface than legacy tools. For shops that want construction-grade compliance without a dated system, that's a compelling pitch.

The honest counterweight is its reviews, which are genuinely mixed. Alongside the industry award, some customers report real frustrations — reporting that doesn't work as advertised, slow and unhelpful support, and persistent bugs, with one blunt verdict that it "creates more work than it saves." That pattern is not unusual for a fast-moving 2021 startup still maturing a complex product, but it's a meaningful caution: construction payroll is compliance-critical, and bugs or reporting failures carry real consequences.

For a contractor drawn to a modern, integrated construction HCM — and willing to validate the specific reporting and compliance workflows carefully (and check current support quality) before committing — Miter is a promising, award-recognized option. Contractors who prioritize a proven, stable track record on compliance-critical payroll may prefer the established specialists (Payroll4Construction, eBacon) until Miter's reliability reviews stabilize.