Davis-Bacon contractors doing federally funded work have to file a WH-347, the actual federal form name for certified payroll reporting, correctly and on time for every pay period on every covered project. A lot of contractors still build this by hand in a spreadsheet, which works until a job has enough workers and enough weeks that one error triggers a compliance review nobody wanted.
We start from how your firm actually tracks prevailing wage classifications, fringe benefit credits, and apprentice ratios today, and narrow the field to a platform that generates a correct WH-347 directly from your existing payroll data instead of a separate manual process layered on top of payroll you already run. Getting your current prevailing wage classifications and project history into the new system is real migration work we handle directly, and when a project's wage determination has classifications or fringe structures that don't map cleanly onto a generic certified payroll template, we build the logic that actually gets the calculation right instead of a payroll clerk working it out by hand every week.
A spreadsheet-built certified payroll process works until it doesn't, usually when a job scales up in worker count or runs long enough that a classification or fringe-credit error slips through. We check whether a platform generates a correct WH-347 directly from real payroll data, not a manually re-entered copy of it.
Your current wage classifications, fringe benefit credit structures, and project-level payroll history need to move into the new system correctly, since an inherited classification error doesn't just affect the new system, it's a compliance exposure on the project itself.
Some wage determinations carry classification splits or fringe benefit structures, cash-in-lieu arrangements, apprentice ratio requirements, that a generic certified payroll template doesn't calculate correctly out of the box. When that's your situation, we build the calculation logic that actually matches the determination.
How your firm currently tracks prevailing wage classifications and fringe credits, and how certified payroll reporting gets built today, spreadsheet, manual process, or software that's not quite right, decides this more than a generic features list. Walk us through a real wage determination and we'll tell you honestly which platform fits, what a real classification-and-history migration looks like, or whether your calculation logic needs something built custom.
Get a free quote → →It's the actual federal form name for certified payroll reporting required on Davis-Bacon covered projects. Software in this category exists specifically to generate that form correctly and on time, so we check that capability first, not as an afterthought.
The better platforms do, pulling directly from payroll records rather than requiring a separate manual re-entry process. We check this specifically, since a disconnected process is exactly where classification and fringe-credit errors creep in.
Yes, if migrated carefully. We verify wage classifications and fringe benefit structures against the actual wage determination during migration, so an existing error doesn't carry forward into the new system.
Inconsistently across platforms, especially when a wage determination has a nonstandard structure. When the default calculation doesn't match your determination, we build the logic that calculates it correctly.
We do. The software vendor supports their own platform; migrating your wage classifications and project history, and building calculation logic for a nonstandard wage determination, is work we handle directly.
Picking usually takes a couple of weeks once we understand your project mix and wage determinations. The migration itself typically takes three to five weeks, best timed between active certified payroll reporting cycles.