Weekly certified payroll submission
Form WH-347 (or state equivalent) filed every week for the life of the project, signed by the contractor's officer under penalty of law.
The most rigorous certified payroll compliance pack a public-works contractor can use.
Prevailing-Wage Certified Payroll Compliance Engine assembles a documentation-complete certified payroll pack — every statutory element, every wage determination match, the fringe annualization, the apprentice ratio check, and the portal submission — checked against the letter of the Davis-Bacon Act and applicable state laws before a specialist releases it.
Every subsection of Davis-Bacon Act & 30+ state lawsFive statutory compliance elements, gate-checkedDOL WH-347 · state forms · portal submissionsSpecialist release on every pack5-business-day SLA
Why packs fail
A single misclassification or fringe error can trigger withholding, back wages, and debarment.
Every contractor and subcontractor on a federally funded or state public-works project must submit a certified payroll report weekly for the life of the job, signed under penalty of law. Get the classification, fringe annualization, apprentice ratio, or overtime math wrong and the contracting agency withholds payment, the DOL or state assesses back wages plus an equal amount in liquidated damages, and repeat offenders are debarred from bidding for up to three years.
Most contractors run this by hand, from memory, across multiple jobs and jurisdictions. The Davis-Bacon Act was overhauled in 2023 for the first time since 1982, and 30+ states have their own quirks. That is exactly where compliance gaps hide.
Prevailing-Wage Certified Payroll Compliance Engine exists to close that gap with a single, exhaustive standard applied identically to every file.
$13,508
max DBRA civil penalty per violation, plus back wages and liquidated damages
The benchmark
Measured against the letter of the statute — subsection by subsection.
We do not summarize the law and hope. Every pack is scored against a versioned rule pack tied to the exact text of the Davis-Bacon Act and applicable state prevailing-wage laws. These are the provisions each pack is held to.
Correct wage determination
Each worker's classification matched to the applicable DOL wage determination, including fringe annualization and bona-fide fringe credit.
Apprentice ratio and registration
Apprentice hours verified against the registered program ratio; unregistered apprentices paid at journeyman rate.
Overtime computation
Overtime hours paid at 1.5x the base rate, correctly annualized for fringe contributions.
Statement of compliance
The contractor's officer certifies the report is accurate; false statements subject to False Claims Act liability.
State prevailing-wage forms and portals
Additional state-specific forms, thresholds, and submission portals (e.g., CA DIR, NY DOL) are handled per jurisdiction.
How a pack is built
Intake to specialist release, with deterministic gates the AI cannot overrule.
AI extracts and drafts. Deterministic rules — running as code, outside the model — decide what is complete. A human specialist signs every release. That order is never reversed.
01
Compliance Gap Scan
Upload raw payroll and timesheets. We return a free compliance read: which statutory elements and wage determinations you already have, and which are missing.
02
Wage determination & classification
As your authorized clerical agent, we retrieve the applicable DOL wage determination and state-specific rates, classify each worker, and build the compliance matrix.
03
Grounded drafting
The five compliance elements are drafted from your validated data and the rule pack into field-locked templates — no legal opinions, no invented facts.
04
Deterministic compliance gates
Rates reconcile to the wage determination to the penny; fringe annualization is verified; apprentice ratios are checked; overtime is computed correctly. Any failure blocks release.
05
Specialist release
A compliance specialist reviews the exception queue and signs the release. High-value or complex multi-jurisdiction projects route to attorney review first.
06
Delivery
You receive the pack: completed WH-347 (or state forms), compliance matrix, evidence log, and portal submission confirmation — ready for the contractor's officer to sign and submit.
The bar we hold
Rigor you can measure.
100%
Specialist-released
No pack ships without a human signature.
5 days
Standard SLA
From complete intake to released pack.
<1%
Critical-defect target
Tracked against a gold-standard pack library.
30+
State regimes covered
Federal Davis-Bacon plus all 'little Davis-Bacon' states.
Why Prevailing-Wage Certified Payroll Compliance Engine
Built to be the most thorough option a contractor has.
Documentation-complete, by design
The deliverable is completeness itself — every statutory element and wage determination accounted for or explicitly exception-coded. Nothing is left implicit.
Deterministic, not vibes
The gates that decide completeness are code, not a model's opinion. A drafting error cannot slip past a statutory requirement.
In its lane, on purpose
We prepare documentation and run searches as your clerical agent. We never contact the contracting agency or give legal advice; the contractor's officer signs the statement of compliance.
Engagement
Flat fee, per released pack. No contingency, ever.
Simple, predictable, and aligned with a compliance standard — not a cut of any recovery.
- A free Compliance Gap Scan before you commit — see exactly what is missing.
- One flat fee per released Certified Payroll Compliance Pack; disclosed pass-through search fees.
- Optional fixed-fee attorney review for high-value or multi-jurisdiction projects.
- Optional Audit Defense Add-on for the full compliance file and audit trail.
FAQ
Questions, answered precisely.
Is Prevailing-Wage Certified Payroll Compliance Engine a law firm?
No. Prevailing-Wage Certified Payroll Compliance Engine, a service of Your Deputy, Obuke LLC, provides documentation-completeness services. It is not a law firm, does not provide legal advice, and does not represent you in any legal matter. Attorney review is available and recommended for complex or high-value projects.
Do you contact the contracting agency or submit the reports?
We prepare the reports and provide portal submission instructions, but the contractor's officer signs and submits the certified payroll. We act as your clerical agent.
What makes a pack 'complete'?
Completeness is defined by the statute: correct wage determination match, proper classification, fringe annualization, apprentice ratio check, overtime computation, and statement of compliance. Deterministic gates enforce each one before release.
How fast is it?
The standard SLA is five business days from complete intake to a specialist-released pack. The free Compliance Gap Scan is returned much sooner and tells you exactly what is still needed.
How are you priced?
A flat fee per released pack, plus disclosed pass-through search costs. No contingency and no percentage of any contract value.
See what's missing before it costs you a contract.
Start with a free Compliance Gap Scan. Send your raw payroll and timesheets and we'll return a compliance read against every subsection of the Davis-Bacon Act and applicable state laws.
Documentation-completeness service · not legal advice · the contractor's officer signs every report.