Certified Payroll That Builds Itself From Field Hours
On a Davis-Bacon or federally funded job, a WH-347 certified-payroll report is due every week, per project, per worker classification - and a hand-built one is where errors and penalties start. Fintra is building certified payroll that reads connected field hours against the wage determination and drafts the WH-347 for you, then seals the pay run as evidence.
Illustrative - in active development, sample wage data
The weekly report that keeps you on a federal job
Certified payroll is the price of admission on prevailing-wage work. Every week, for every federally funded project, you owe a WH-347 that shows each worker, their classification, the hours by day, the base rate and fringe you actually paid against the applicable wage determination, and a signed statement of compliance. Get a classification or a fringe wrong and you are exposed to back-wage liability, withheld payments, and debarment. Fintra is building certified payroll that assembles that report from the hours already flowing in, so the filing is a review, not a rebuild.
What certified payroll does each week
- Reads connected field hours by worker, day, and cost code
- Maps each worker to a classification on the applicable wage determination
- Checks base rate plus fringe against the required prevailing rate, and flags shortfalls
- Drafts the WH-347 and the statement of compliance for review and signature
- Seals the pay run as tamper-evident evidence you can hand a DOL reviewer
On the same governed ledger as the money
Certified payroll is not a standalone report generator bolted to the side. It rides the Fintra ledger, so a certified pay run posts real journal entries, hits job cost against the right cost codes, and reconciles with WIP and the pay application on the same job. Every run is decided against your books and sealed to the recomputable evidence ledger, alongside the retainage releases and change orders it sits next to - one governed record from the field hour to the filed report.
Where this is today
Frequently asked questions
What is certified payroll?
Certified payroll is the weekly report - the WH-347 in federal work - that shows each worker, their classification, daily hours, and the base and fringe paid against the applicable prevailing-wage determination, with a signed statement of compliance. It is required on Davis-Bacon and other prevailing-wage jobs.
Does Fintra generate the WH-347 today?
A real certified-payroll and prevailing-wage engine is in active development in the Fintra payroll package, running on sample wage-determination data. The governed ledger, pay-run evidence sealing, and payroll anomaly detection are live today; full WH-347 generation across jurisdictions is in build.
How does certified payroll tie to job cost?
It reads the same connected field hours that drive job cost, so the labor on the certified report and the labor on the books come from one source and reconcile by construction, and the run posts real journal entries against the right cost codes.
What happens if a fringe or classification is wrong?
The engine checks base and fringe against the determination and flags shortfalls before the run posts, so you correct them before filing. Every run and correction is sealed to a tamper-evident evidence ledger you can hand a reviewer.
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