Generate Form WH-347 and California A-1-131 in minutes, not hours. CertPay checks every worker against your wage determination and tells you the exact dollar shortfall before you sign — the part that actually costs contractors money.
Every contractor and sub on a federally funded job files a WH-347 every week, for every project. The DOL estimates it takes about 55 minutes per report by hand. The software that automates it starts at $300–$1,200 a month, and QuickBooks Payroll and Gusto don't produce the form at all. So a ten-person crew with one school-district job does it in a spreadsheet, on a Friday afternoon, badly.
Enter a worker at $30 base + $10 fringe against a $49.05 determination and CertPay tells you: short $9.05/hr on 40 hours — $362 owed. Most tools happily print the violation.
The premium is 1.5× the base rate only. Fringe is paid on every hour and never multiplied. Getting this backwards is the classic back-wage finding, and CertPay gets it right.
Not a reskin. Daily overtime over 8 hours, double time over 12, the seventh consecutive day, SDI, cheque numbers and the full 13-column deduction grid the A-1-131 requires.
Since 2009 the DOL requires only an identifying number — usually the last four SSN digits — never the full nine. If a complete SSN lands in that field, CertPay flags it as an error before you print.
"Start next week from this one" carries the crew, classifications and rates forward and zeroes the hours. That's the whole job after the first setup.
Names, wages and partial SSNs stay in your browser. No account, no server, no breach to worry about. Works with no signal in a job trailer.
Six screens. The first week takes about fifteen minutes; every week after is five.
| Step | What you do |
|---|---|
| 1. Setup | Pick federal or California, enter the contractor, project and week ending date. |
| 2. Wage rates | Type the classifications and base + fringe rates from your determination. |
| 3. Crew | Add each worker, their last-four and classification. |
| 4. Hours | Enter daily hours. Straight time, overtime and double time compute as you type. |
| 5. Pay | Deductions. FICA (and California SDI) calculate automatically. |
| 6. Review & file | Read the compliance check, then print both pages to PDF. |
Free covers a real payroll, not a crippled demo. Pay only when your crew outgrows it.
Plain-English answers to the questions that come up at 4pm on a Friday.
Every column explained, with a worked example and the six mistakes that get payrolls kicked back.
Why the premium is 1.5× base and never 1.5× fringe — with the arithmetic, and a calculator.
Daily overtime, the seventh-day rule, eCPR filing and the $100-per-worker-per-day penalty.
Free for up to 15 workers. No account, no card, nothing to install.
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