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We simplify prevailing wage, certified payroll, and public works compliance.

Labor Compliance Pros empowers businesses with expert support in labor compliance and admin operations—so you can stay audit-ready and focused on what you do best.

11/01/2026

Federal Davis-Bacon overtime is simple — and often miscalculated:
Hours over 40 in the workweek get time-and-a-half. Daily overtime (8-hour days) is a state-law thing, not federal prevailing wage. So a crew working four 10-hour days owes no federal OT, while five 9-hour days owes five hours at time-and-a-half.
Get the wrong one and the back-wage bill writes itself.
How does your payroll system calculate overtime on public jobs?

11/01/2026

Rate update for anyone budgeting a project right now:

The Federal Reserve held rates at 3.75% to 4.00% on October 28. No rate cut is coming, and the odds of a December rate hike are about 85%. The 30-year fixed mortgage rate is 7.24%, according to Freddie Mac.

For contractors and project owners, that combination is a planning instruction: carry today’s borrowing costs through your bids, schedules, and cash-flow projections. Do not build a budget that only works if rates fall.

Work is still moving at these rates. A $389,000 closing in Warren is one recent example of a deal that penciled out and closed without waiting for a different rate environment.

At Labor Compliance Pros, our piece of that discipline is keeping payroll, fringe, and reporting clean so financing and compliance never become the reason a project stalls.

Are you budgeting your current projects at today’s rates, or still leaving room for a cut that is not coming?

10/31/2026

Every certified payroll ends with a Statement of Compliance — and the person who signs it isn't filling out a form. They're certifying, under penalties of perjury, that the payroll is correct, that every worker was paid the right rate, and that no one was shorted a dime.
That signature is the first thing an auditor reads and the last thing a contractor wants to explain in a violation letter.
Does the person signing your payrolls know exactly what they're certifying?

10/29/2026

This week I answered the questions a room full of contractors asked the state — and never got answered. I've put all of them into a one-page digest: delivery coverage, working supervisors, fringe, apprenticeship penalties, filing corrections. If you want it, comment DIGEST and I'll send it. And if the filings side of your public work is eating your office hours, that's the work we carry — grab a short call here: https://calendar.app.google/WgPK4MuPXGH7wSt27
Which of this week's answers was the one you needed?

10/28/2026

Typo in your certified payroll filing — wrong box, transposed number — but the crew was paid correctly. Violation? No. It's a correction: amend the filing, keep the true payroll records as proof, document the fix. A data-entry error with correct pay underneath is a paperwork problem. Underpayment is a violation. Know which one you have before you panic.
Has a filing typo ever cost your company time or money?

10/27/2026

Washington's 15% apprentice utilization is measured on total project labor hours — and there is no "three strikes" debarment rule for falling short. What exists: contract penalties (check your contract — RCW 39.04.320), and a good faith effort defense that only works if your outreach to training programs is documented while the job is running.
Are you tracking apprentice hours during the job, or discovering the number at closeout?

10/26/2026

"Is there a cap on the fringe percentage?" No cap. The tests are: is the benefit bona fide, is it funded/annualized correctly, and can you document it. Union packages routinely run 40–50% of the total rate — the number isn't the problem; the paperwork behind it is.
When did you last actually verify your fringe documentation would survive an audit?

10/26/2026

We started a podcast.

Audit-Ready takes one real certified-payroll problem per episode — the questions the state never answered, the $1.7M misclassification settlement, the five mistakes that draw audit findings — and walks through what the rules actually require.

First three episodes are live now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0t7ZpBvMGT0jVCKKXUSMxz

Which topic should we take on next?

Podcast · Labor Compliance Pros · Audit-Ready is the prevailing wage podcast from Labor Compliance Pros. Each week, hosts Alex and Jordan make Davis-Bacon and state prevailing wage compliance plain — certified payroll, fringe credit, apprenticeship utilization, worker classification, and the aud...

10/25/2026

"If my supervisor is completely hands off, he's exempt, right?" Mostly — supervision alone isn't covered work. But the moment a supervisor or PM picks up the tools in a classification, those hours are prevailing wage hours at that classification's rate. Split timekeeping is what makes it hold up in an audit.
Do your foremen track hands-on hours separately from supervision hours?

10/24/2026

Delivery driver drops standard materials at your jobsite and leaves — prevailing wage or not? Generally: not covered for the drop itself. It flips when the material is fabricated for your project, or the driver unloads, stages, or does any work on site. Coverage follows the work, not the job title.
How does your team handle delivery days on public jobs — covered or not?

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