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    The Contractor’s Guide to Prevailing Wage Determination

    A prevailing wage determination, sometimes referred to as a Davis-Bacon determination, is the clerical backbone of...

    Certified Payroll Reports: A Guide to Payroll Reporting and Compliance

    President Biden's 2022 budget proposal includes over $2.3 billion in infrastructure spending. Government agencies at...

    Certified Payroll Reporting: What You Need to Know

    If you are a contractor working on a federally funded project, you may be required to submit certified payroll reports...

    What Should I Look for in a Certified Payroll Software?

    In many ways, it may seem like we’ve entered into a golden age of automation. From consumer electronics to home...

    How Much Should I Withhold for Payroll Taxes?

    One of the challenging aspects of handling an organization’s payroll is knowing how much money to withhold for employee...

    How To Avoid Davis-Bacon Act Violations

    Did you know that if a project receives more than $2,000 in government funding you could face a compliance obligation?...

    Tips and Guidelines for Certified Payroll Reporting Software

    The  Davis-Bacon Act of 1931  requires construction companies to pay workers local prevailing wages and benefits. Most...

    Calculating Fringe Benefits For Certified Payroll And Prevailing Wages

    When working on contracts, particularly government contracts, you often are subject to Davis-Bacon and Related Acts.  

    What Is The Contractor's Greatest Prevailing Wage Compliance Struggle?

    Prevailing wage compliance can be a challenging task. You can ask the contractors that had to repay millions of dollars...

    Top 10 Ways Construction Companies Can Stay Competitive

    Finding talented employees for your construction business is difficult. The Association of General Contractors recently...

    7 Important Construction Company Management Tips

    Did you know there are 700,000 construction companies inthe US? That makes construction a highly competitive industry....

    Things To Know About Construction Cost Codes

    Construction cost codes or activity-based costing are the most reliable ways for companies to account for the work...

    Company Repays Wages After Denying Paid Sick Leave During Covid-19

    Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor's investigators found that Jerezee Construction - centered in...

    Understanding The Davis-Bacon Act And Its Related Acts

    To work for the federal government, one must be aware of the rules and regulations set up to protect workers. One of...

    3 Ways Construction Businesses Can Thrive In A Tough Economic Climate

    Traditional contractors are having a difficult time standing out in a competitive construction market because of:

    How Can You Get A Government Construction Contract?

    Local and state governments spend over $250 billion to build roads, schools, and other public infrastructure every...

    Do You Include Salaried Employees On Certified Payroll Reports?

    Contractors and subcontractors have to submit a certified payroll report of their labor wages. The federal government...

    Top 10 Benefits Of Using The Time Tracking Software In Your Business

    Using the time tracking software in your business has several benefits. Using any time tracking software in your...

    Everything You Must Know About Certified Payroll In 2021

    US employment law could be very complicated. Although the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) contains guidance, it is...

    How to Get Field Crews on Board with Your New Construction Software

    Introducing construction software at your company is exciting—it can also be quite challenging. Adjusting to new...

    The Top 3 Differences Between Certified Payroll And Wrap-Up Payroll

    Contractors might be asked to submit two different types of payroll for work performed on a specific contract or...

    Construction Company Payroll Manager Charged For Prevailing Wage Fraud

    Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced that a Bergen County construction company payroll manager was accused of...

    6 Tips for Winning a Government Construction Contract

    Is your construction company ready to take on challenging federal, state, or local construction projects? Then consider...

    Knowing The Difference Between State & Federal Prevailing Wage Laws

    If you are bidding on a contract or already working for a government entity, there are specific requirements to ensure...

    How Long Does It Take To Create Certified Payroll Reports

    The Davis-Bacon act requires employers working on construction projects to submit a weekly WH-347 report to the...

    Payroll compliance for an employee’s first day

    While hiring new employees, you have to do a lot of work. The first day is mostly about completing the HR work, signing...

    Certified Payroll Reporting Takes an Important Step Forward

    Davison-Bacon Act requires contractors and subcontractors to pay prevailing wages to all employers working on publicly...

    Illinois Prevailing Wage Act: The Basics, Obligations, and Violations

    Illinois is among the 32 states having prevailing wage laws on the books. The Illinois Prevailing Wages Act is used to...

    Washington Prevailing Wage Rules, Requirements & Penalties

    In 1945, The Washington State Public Works Act was revised. It requires that government employees be paid prevailing...

    Common Certified Payroll Report Mistakes to Avoid

    Davis-Bacon Act and the respective state “mini Davis-Bacon Acts” impose a condition on construction projects. According...

    6 Reasons You Need to Automate Your Unique Payroll Policies

    Companies in every industry are overwhelmed with payroll. A commercially available payroll is not able to handle the...

    New Construction Projects Could Mean New Payroll Complexities

    The construction industries hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of the busy season. It was the worst...

    3 Strategies to Simplify Payroll

    No matter how well-organized business is, obstacles may arise. Paying the employees on time is one of them that...

    What is Payroll Tax Withholding?

    As an employer, you are obliged to pay your employees. As a responsible employer, you also must withhold tax deduction....

    5 things to Consider When Paying Remote Employees

    In the times of COVID-19, remote working opportunities have significantly. Working from home is a new norm for...

    Benefits of Switching To Paperless Payroll

    Shifting paper-based payroll to paperless payroll is time-saving and efficient to work in today’s digital world....

    7 Quick Tips to Make Year-End Payroll Processing Easier

    Minor errors are common in the Year-End payroll process but small neglected mistakes can add up to a large penalty. We...

    Certified Payroll Guide

    WHAT IS CERTIFIED PAYROLL? Contractors (and subcontractors) are compelled to send Certified Payroll Records (CPRs) to...

    Key Insights for Purchasing Construction Software

    As technological advancement increases with time, the use of management software by professionals also increases. In...

    Instructions For How To Fill Out Certified Payroll Report Forms

    Payroll services are very important, and managing an organization’s payroll is no easy task — it’s time-consuming and...

    Instructions for completing payroll forms

    While running a small business, one of the important tasks is to complete payroll. Whenever an employee joins a...

    A Prevailing Wage Case Study - JTC Case Study

    A Prevailing Wage Case Study How Jacobs Telephone Contractors used Certified Payroll Reporting to save more than $11K a...

    Upgrade Your Tech And Streamline Your Covid 19 Construction Projects

    The fact that people from various avenues and stakeholders have to work together to deliver a project makes...

    Selecting a payroll service provider for a small construction business

    Some small businesses may choose to outsource their payroll work to a payroll service provider than doing it in-house....

    A guide to becoming a successful contractor in the midst of COVID-19

    Are you looking to become the next big government contractor and are worried that the pandemic may have slowed down...

    Certified Payroll and Prevailing Wage Requirements

    As a contractor or subcontractor, you must have heard of the terms Certified Payroll and Prevailing Wage . Before...

    The Laws And Illegalities Of Paying Under The Table For Employees

    Taxes are an important part of every country, state, or sovereign. They are the backbone of any country’s economic...

    4 Cash Flow Management Mistakes

    Cash flow control poses a relentless obstacle for all sizes of construction firms. Many define the construction sector...

    What Is a Certified Payroll and How Should It Be Filed?

    All federal and federally-aided construction contracts and subcontracts are obliged to submit weekly payrolls. It...

    Job Costing Data Compilation and Management of Current Wage Rates

    Before the processing of any payroll, there is a lot of work that needs to be done and with our Payroll Reporting...

    Complete Guide to Assembling Your Construction Project

    As of now, a huge part of the U.S. population don’t know where it stands due to the shelter-in-place orders. When we...

    Construction Accounting: 3 ways contractors can stop wasting money

    Construction accountants are responsible for taking care of the financials of your business to ensure money is not...

    Prevailing Wage Laws for Construction Labors

    Prevailing wage laws state that when contractors or subcontractors are hiring workers for public jobs, they should pay...

    A Construction Pay Stub Explained

    What is a Pay Stub and its function? A pay stub is a document that serves as proof of your salary. It also shows the...

    What Contractors Need to Know About Davis-Bacon Wages

    What Contractors Need to Know About Davis-Bacon Wages Anyone who's worked as a contractor on a government construction...

    What Are Prevailing Wages?

    Prevailing wages generally surpass the federal or state minimum wage rates. The term “prevailing wages” sometimes is...

    Using Certified Payroll Reporting Software

    A certified payroll report is a specially formatted payroll report, consisting of two pages. In this blog and article...

    Certified Payroll Reporting Directions and Instructions

    If you win a contract for building something for the government then you must submit a certified payroll report every...

    Make sure you select a quality payroll provider

    When you are selecting a payroll provider , you need to make sure that you make this decision smartly. You need to...

    Certified Payroll Reporting offers a host of solutions for contractors

    If you work with contractors then you have to take care of loads of paperwork at the end of every fiscal year which...

    Save Time on Certified Payroll Reporting

    Certified Payroll Reporting can be one of your most time consuming financial operations if you don’t handle it...

    What is Certified Payroll Reporting Software

    Understanding the basic requirements for certified payroll Certified payroll reports, which need to be submitted every...