Davis-Bacon certified payroll, explained.
Practical guides on wage determinations, the WH-347, and the parts of Davis-Bacon compliance that actually come up on a real job, not legal boilerplate.
Certified Payroll Reporting: Requirements, Forms, and a Weekly Contractor Checklist
What goes into a certified payroll report, which forms are in use, and a nine-step checklist to run before every weekly submission.
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· 3 min
What Is the Statement of Compliance on a WH-347?
What you're actually signing every week: what section 4(a) means, who has to sign, and what happens if it's wrong.
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· 6 min
Certified Payroll Forms: Which Ones You Actually Need
WH-347, WH-348, SF-1444 and SF-308, what each one is for, why the WH-347 format is technically optional, and why a state form never replaces the federal one.
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· 8 min
Davis-Bacon Wage Classifications and Apprentice Rates, Explained
How wage classifications and classification descriptions actually work, what conformance means when your work doesn't match one, and when a worker can legally be paid an apprentice rate.
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· 5 min
WH-347 Fillable Form: Where to Get It and What It Won't Do
Where to get the official WH-347 fillable PDF, what every field means, the technical quirks that trip people up, and what the blank form won't do for you.
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· 4 min
Certified Payroll Mistakes to Avoid
The errors that come up most on Davis-Bacon jobs, most of them from the report being right on paper but checked against the wrong thing.
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· 3 min
Does QuickBooks, Gusto, or ADP Do Certified Payroll?
What each platform actually covers for a Davis-Bacon WH-347, checked against their own documentation, and where every one of them stops.
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· 4 min
How to Read a Davis-Bacon Wage Determination
What the WD number means, why the modification matters, and how classifications, base rate, and fringe combine into the prevailing wage.