WageDeck · Prevailing-wage compliance for small subs

Know your wage floor before you bid. File the payroll without the Friday dread.

You won the public job. Now every week you owe a certified payroll at the exact prevailing rate — or the prime holds your check. WageDeck reads the job, finds the rate that binds you, and generates the WH-347 or Hawaiʻi Chapter 104 payroll. Built for the two-to-fifteen-person shop, priced where the enterprise tools aren't.

Every number below pulled from live public wage schedules — not illustrative.
Electrician · Kahului Pier 1 · HI Ch. 104
Verified
$56.55
Base
+
$33.16
Fringe
=
$89.71
Prevailing / hr
Miss the fringe and pay just the $56.55 base? That's a $33.16-an-hour back-wage finding — and a held progress payment until you cure it, for every worker.
Why this is the worst part of a public job

The certified payroll isn't paperwork. It's the key to your check.

Prevailing-wage compliance is the one obligation on a federal or state job that is mandatory, weekly, and directly wired to your cash flow. Get it wrong and the money stops.

Mandatory
Every payroll period

A certified payroll and a signed Statement of Compliance, for the life of the contract — not once.

Cash-gated
The prime holds your draw

Late or wrong certified payroll is the most common reason a small sub's progress payment sits unpaid.

Error-prone
One rate, three ways to blow it

Wrong classification, fringe paid short, overtime figured on the wrong base — each is a wage violation.

Penalty-backed
DOL is the downside

A miscalculated fringe puts you in front of the Department of Labor: back wages, withheld retainage, debarment.

The tools that solve this — LCPtracker, eMARS — are enterprise-priced and usually forced on you by the GC. They're built for the prime who collects the payrolls, not the sub who has to file one. WageDeck is built for the sub.
The lookup is free. The weekly payroll is the paid part.

One workflow, from bid to signed payroll.

Step 1 — Decode any jobFree

The wage floor, before you bid

Paste a solicitation. WageDeck names the governing law, the binding rate, and the traps.
Kahului Pier 1 · HIePRO · State of Hawaiʻi → HRS Ch. 104
Electrician — InsideJourneyman Wireman
$89.71/hr
Base
$56.55
Fringe
$33.16
OTOvertime is $117.99 — not $134.57, not $84.83.
SunElectrician runs double-time Sundays: $146.26.
FringeNo plan? $33.16/hr owed as cash.
Step 2 — Close the week

The certified payroll, done

Enter hours. WageDeck applies the determination and fills the form to sign.
VA CBOC · Federal Davis-Bacon → Form WH-347
1
Enter hours by day
3 workers, straight time and Saturday overtime
2
Rate, OT & fringe applied
OT = 1.5×base + full fringe, checked automatically
3
WH-347 filled + Statement of Compliance
Cash-fringe box set to match your shop
126
Payroll hrs
$9,175.20
Gross, week 07
1-click
Certify & submit
One tool, both regimes

You never pull the wrong form again.

Federal job
Form WH-347
Davis-Bacon · U.S. Dept. of Labor
tool
picks
Hawaiʻi job
Chapter 104 payroll
HRS 104 · State DLIR

A "harbor job" can be state or federal, and they carry different wage tables and different forms. WageDeck reads the funding source and picks the regime for you — the single mistake that quietly voids a certified payroll, gone.

$29/mo
per active job
Priced for the shop, not the enterprise

One avoided finding pays for years.

WageDeck$29/mo — decode free, payroll included, both regimes
LCPtrackerEnterprise pricing, GC-deployed, sub logs in to someone else's system
Doing it by handThe WH-347 every Friday, and the one wrong fringe that stops the check
See your own job decoded

Start with the free decode. Bring your next public job.

Paste a solicitation and see the wage floor, the traps, and what a compliant week costs — before you commit a bid.