Certified payroll compliance, end to end.
Submit, review, and audit certified payroll across every construction contract — with automated prevailing-wage, overtime, and fringe-benefit checks running on every single submission.
- Prevailing wage rateDIR ✓
- Overtime · daily > 8h @ 1.5×
- Fringe benefit shortfall
- Required fields complete✓
- CPR sequence · no week gaps✓
- No duplicate classifications✓
Correction notice ready to issue
Certified payroll review is where compliance teams drown.
Weekly CPRs arrive as spreadsheets and scanned PDFs. Reviewers hand-check wage rates against determinations, recompute overtime, chase missing fields, and reconstruct the audit trail from memory. One missed underpayment becomes a finding.
- ✕Wage rates eyeballed against determinations, line by line
- ✕Overtime and fringe shortfalls recomputed by hand
- ✕Missing SSNs and sequence gaps slip through
- ✕Correction notices drafted from scratch, untracked
- ✕Audit prep means rebuilding months of history
- ✓Every rate checked against the determination automatically
- ✓Overtime & fringe calculated with exact restitution owed
- ✓Missing fields and CPR gaps flagged on submission
- ✓Correction notices generated, issued, and tracked to restitution
- ✓Every action audit-logged — evidence pack exports on demand
Six checks. Every submission. Zero exceptions.
The moment a certified payroll report is submitted, the engine runs six independent checks. Clean reports auto-approve. Anything questionable is held for review — with the exact dollar impact attached.
Prevailing wage
Each worker's base rate validated against the contract's California DIR and Davis-Bacon determination.
Overtime
Daily hours over 8 must pay 1.5×. The engine recomputes and flags any underpaid premium.
Fringe benefits
Fringe contributions reconciled against required hourly amounts, surfacing shortfalls to the cent.
Missing fields
SSNs, classifications, hours, and statement-of-compliance data validated before a report can pass.
CPR sequence
Detects missing payroll weeks so no reporting gap goes unnoticed across the life of a contract.
Duplicate classifications
Catches the same worker reported under conflicting trade classifications in a single period.
The agency and its contractors, working the same record.
PCL Admin
For the reviewing agency — the command center for every contract and contractor.
- Manage vendors, contracts, and onboarding
- Review flagged CPRs with a daily exception digest
- Issue correction notices and verify restitution
- Run 10 built-in reports + a custom report builder
- Export audit-ready evidence packs
Contractor Portal
For contractors and their subs — guided submission with errors caught before they're filed.
- Sign project certifications electronically
- Submit payroll by Excel bulk upload or hand entry
- Respond to correction notices, record restitution
- Register subcontractors with flow-down scoping
- Download WH-347 PDFs anytime
Real-time visibility over all active contracts.
Get a unified bird's-eye view of your compliance score, apprentice hour ratios, and subcontractor payroll status. Immediately identify fringe benefit shortfalls and wage discrepancies before they escalate into compliance issues.
"The compliance score card is a game changer."
— Compliance Director at Major Transit Authority
"Replaced our manual calculations entirely, reducing processing time from 3 days to minutes."
— Managing Partner, Structural Civil Engineering Consultant
From submission to audit evidence — in one system.
WH-347 & A-1-131 Forms
Federal Statement of Compliance and California DIR A-1-131 payroll forms pre-filled and downloadable in one click.
DIR eCPR XML Exports
One-click California DIR electronic certified payroll XML exports, ready for direct upload to the state portal.
Excel bulk upload
Download a structured template, fill it, and import a full week of payroll in a single pass.
Correction notices
Generate, issue, and track correction notices from first finding to verified restitution.
Restitution tracking
Every dollar of underpayment is quantified, assigned, and reconciled until the worker is made whole.
10 reports + builder
Ten built-in compliance reports plus a custom report builder for whatever an auditor asks next.
Audit evidence packs
One click bundles CPRs, notices, and audit logs into a downloadable, audit-ready ZIP.
Role-based access
Admins, reviewers, contractors, and subs each see exactly — and only — their own scoped data.
Complete audit log
Every mutating action is written with full before/after detail — a defensible, timestamped trail.
Email notifications
Invitations, approvals, rejections, and overdue-CPR digests dispatched from your own mailboxes.
Secure onboarding
Contractors join through a unique invitation link and set their own password — no shared logins.
Five steps from payroll to proof.
Submit
Contractor uploads payroll by Excel or hand entry and signs the certification.
Auto-check
The engine runs all six checks instantly and quantifies any findings.
Review
Clean CPRs auto-approve; flagged ones land in the reviewer's exception digest.
Correct
A correction notice is issued; the contractor responds and records restitution.
Audit
Every step is logged and exportable as an evidence pack — audit-ready, always.
Built to the standard public agencies are held to.
Sensitive payroll data is handled the way an auditor expects: minimized, access-scoped, and fully traceable.
Social Security numbers are stored as last-4 only — never in full.
Production data sits in PostgreSQL encrypted at rest by default.
Contractors see only their own vendor's data; subs only their contracts.
JWT sessions expire on a 30-minute window to limit exposure.
Every mutating action is captured with before/after state.
Deploys to Azure with PostgreSQL and blob storage for files.
Success Stories from the Field
See how public works departments, general contractors, and engineering consultants leverage PCL One to guarantee compliance and automate manual reporting.
Major Regional Water District
Transitioned from a paper-and-spreadsheet review process across 15+ complex active infrastructure projects. Reduced weekly certified payroll audit cycles by 75% while ensuring error-free, automated eCPR XML submissions for the state registry.
California Electrical & Mechanical Contractor
Utilized the interactive web form and live rate checker to submit certified payroll reports. Eliminated correction notice cycles and resolved wage discrepancies prior to submission, allowing instant project closeouts.
Leading Civil Structural Engineering Firm
Managed multi-tier subcontractor compliance across local transportation upgrades. Automatically tracked apprentice-to-journeyman hour ratios under complex California DIR rules, eliminating manual calculator audit errors.
See the engine flag a real underpayment — live.
Originally built to meet the rigorous public works compliance standards of major regional transit authorities. Book a 30-minute walkthrough and watch a flagged CPR move from finding to restitution to audit pack.
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