WHO WE SERVE
You hold the prime contract. That means every wage rate, every certified payroll, and every apprenticeship ratio on the project is your responsibility, even when a third-tier sub is the one who got it wrong. SkillSmart gives general contractors and EPCs one system to track prevailing wage compliance across every sub, every trade, and every project in your portfolio.
YOUR WORLD
It is Friday at 2 PM. Certified payroll is due to the agency by end of day. You have 23 subcontractors on this project. Fourteen have submitted. Six are late. Three have not responded to your last two emails. You are copying and pasting data from spreadsheets, checking wage rates against a PDF you downloaded from SAM.gov last month, and hoping the numbers are right.
Multiply that by the 30 other active projects your firm is running right now. Each one has its own wage determination. Some are Davis-Bacon federal, some are state prevailing wage, and two of them require both. Your compliance team is spending more time chasing paperwork than actually reviewing it.
That is the compliance workflow SkillSmart replaces. Not with more spreadsheets or another email reminder system. With a platform where subs submit directly, payroll is validated automatically, and you see compliance status across every project on one screen.
YOUR CHALLENGES
You are responsible for your subs’ compliance, but you cannot control when they submit or whether their data is correct. Late submissions, wrong classifications, and missing fringe calculations create a backlog that your compliance team has to sort through manually before every filing deadline. And that is just the first tier.
Federal Davis-Bacon, state prevailing wage, county rates, project labor agreements. Every project has a different wage determination. Every trade has a different rate. Cross state lines and the rules change again. One outdated rate applied to one worker on one payroll is enough to trigger a DOL investigation on the entire project.
A DOL investigator does not call ahead. When they show up, they want every certified payroll, every wage determination, and every apprenticeship record for the last two years. If your records are scattered across spreadsheets, email attachments, and filing cabinets, producing a defensible audit package takes weeks. If it takes weeks, it probably has gaps.
HOW SKILLSMART HELPS
Every sub on your project gets their own access to submit certified payroll data directly into SkillSmart. No more email chains. No more spreadsheets reformatted three different ways. Subs submit, the system validates against the project’s wage determination, and you see the results on your dashboard. Automated reminders go out when deadlines approach. Escalation alerts fire when subs are late.
SkillSmart maintains Davis-Bacon federal wage determinations, state prevailing wage rates across all 50 states, and county-level adjustments. When rates update, the platform applies the new rates to active projects automatically. Your compliance team does not need to download PDFs from SAM.gov or cross-reference state labor department websites. The correct rate is always applied to the correct trade on the correct project.
Every payroll submission, every validation check, every wage determination applied to your project is recorded and timestamped from the first day SkillSmart is active. When an auditor asks for records, you generate the complete package in minutes, not weeks. Certified payrolls, wage rates, apprenticeship ratios, and fringe benefit calculations, organized by project, sub, trade, or date range. Export to PDF or Excel.
INSTANT DEMO
Click through InSight IQ yourself. No form. No sales call. Watch a wage determination apply to a federally-funded project, see certified payroll validated against Davis-Bacon rates, and check compliance status across a portfolio of active construction jobs.
✓ Davis-Bacon Wage Tracking ✓ Certified Payroll (New + Legacy WH-347) ✓ Sub-Tier Oversight ✓ Multi-Project Dashboard
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Trusted by general contractors and EPCs on prevailing wage projects nationwide
“We manage over 60 active prevailing wage projects across 8 states. Before SkillSmart, certified payroll was our biggest compliance headache. Subs missing deadlines, wrong wage rates, constant back-and-forth over email. Now every sub files through the platform, every payroll is validated before we see it, and our last 3 DOL audits closed with zero findings. It pays for itself in avoided back-pay alone.”
Director of Compliance
National General Contractor
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Answers to the questions GCs, project executives, and compliance teams ask most about prevailing wage software, certified payroll, and subcontractor compliance management.
Construction prevailing wage software is a platform that tracks wage determinations, validates certified payroll against applicable rates, and manages compliance documentation for projects subject to Davis-Bacon or state prevailing wage laws. For general contractors, it replaces the manual process of downloading wage decisions, comparing rates in spreadsheets, and chasing subcontractors for submissions. SkillSmart handles all of this in one system.
Every subcontractor on your project, at every tier, gets their own portal to submit certified payroll data. SkillSmart validates each submission against the project’s wage determination before it reaches your dashboard. You see real-time status for every sub: who has submitted, who is late, and who has compliance flags. Automated reminders go out before deadlines. Escalation alerts trigger when submissions are overdue.
Yes. SkillSmart maintains Davis-Bacon federal wage determinations and state prevailing wage rates for all 50 states. When a project requires compliance with both federal and state rules, the platform applies the higher rate and tracks against both standards. Rate updates push to active projects automatically, so you never work off a stale wage determination.
Yes. SkillSmart supports both the new and legacy WH-347 certified payroll forms. Projects that started on the old form continue without interruption. New projects use the current form version automatically. Both versions are validated against the same wage determination data and produce the same audit-ready documentation.
Penalties vary by jurisdiction and severity. Under Davis-Bacon, contractors face back-pay liability for the difference between wages paid and the prevailing rate. Willful violations can result in debarment, a 3-year ban from all federal and federally-assisted contracts. State penalties vary but often include fines per affected worker per day. On IRA-funded projects, prevailing wage failures can reduce the tax credit from the 5x bonus rate to the base rate.
SkillSmart was built for how GCs actually manage compliance: multiple projects, multiple states, multiple tiers of subcontractors, all with weekly certified payroll deadlines. Features like automated sub-tier tracking, multi-project dashboards, and real-time validation differentiate it from legacy platforms that bolt prevailing wage onto generic HR or payroll tools. Every customer also gets a dedicated compliance specialist, not a support ticket queue. See the full comparison →
Most GCs are fully operational in 2 to 4 weeks. A dedicated compliance specialist configures wage determinations for your active projects, sets up sub-tier access for your subcontractors, and trains your compliance team. If you have projects already in progress, existing payroll data can be imported so there is no gap in your records. Schedule your setup call →
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