PayrollCertified pulls your hours from QuickBooks Online or Gusto, applies the correct DIR prevailing wage rates for your trade and county, and generates a ready-to-upload California eCPR XML file — in minutes, not hours.
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Built for California specialty trades. No generic payroll software bloat.
Connect your payroll source once. PayrollCertified reads your time activities directly — no CSV exports, no copy-paste.
We look up the prevailing wage rate for your exact trade, county, and week-ending date. No manual lookups on the DIR website.
Generates a California eCPR XML file validated against the official CPR.xsd schema. Download and upload to the DIR portal — done.
Daily 8/12-hour overtime, 7th-consecutive-day rules, Saturday and Sunday floors — all calculated correctly before your signature goes on the form.
If a worker's actual rate falls below the DIR prevailing rate, you'll see it flagged before the report is submitted — not after an audit.
Run separate certified payroll reports for each public works project. Workers can appear on multiple projects with correct hours split per site.
A workflow built around how subcontractors actually run payroll.
Authorize QuickBooks Online or Gusto with one click. PayrollCertified reads your time activities — it never writes anything back.
Enter your contractor license, FEIN, project number, and awarding agency. One-time per project — saved for every future report.
Select the week and trade. See every worker's hours, prevailing rate, gross wages, and fringe. Fix anything before the XML is generated.
Click "Generate Report." Download the validated eCPR XML file and upload directly to the California DIR portal. Done.
Real prevailing wage data — not placeholders — for the trades that actually use certified payroll.
Rates sourced from official DIR HTML tables and PDFs. Updated every DIR publication cycle (March & September). 247 total rate rows across all 58 California counties.
One plan. Everything included. Cancel anytime.
Everything you need to stay compliant on California public works jobs.
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Connect your payroll source and run your first report free. No credit card, no sales call, no setup fee.