WHO WE SERVE
You bid the job. You won the work. Now you need to submit certified payroll every week on a platform you did not choose, using wage rates you did not set, on a deadline the prime controls. SkillSmart makes that process simple. One login, your trades, your rates, your submissions. Done before Friday.
YOUR WORLD
It is Wednesday morning. You have electricians on a state highway project, pipefitters on a federal building renovation, and apprentices split between both. Each project has different wage rates. Each prime wants certified payroll submitted a different way. One uses a portal. One wants a spreadsheet emailed. The third just switched to a new system you have never seen before and the login instructions arrived yesterday.
You are not a compliance officer. You are a trade contractor trying to get your crew paid correctly and keep your paperwork current. But every week you spend hours pulling together hours data, matching workers to the right classifications, and double-checking fringe calculations before you submit. And you still are not sure the rates you are using are current.
SkillSmart gives you one place to handle all of it. Your trades, your workers, your rates, your submissions. The system validates everything before you hit submit, so you know it is right the first time. No rejected submissions. No Friday afternoon phone calls from the prime.
YOUR CHALLENGES
Davis-Bacon wage determinations update. State rates change. A modification hits mid-project and nobody tells you until the prime rejects your certified payroll. You are expected to track rates for every trade classification on every project, and one wrong rate on one worker can trigger a back-pay order that comes out of your pocket, not the prime’s.
One prime uses LCPtracker. Another uses spreadsheets. A third just moved to a new platform. You are logging into three different systems every week, re-entering the same crew data in three different formats, and keeping track of three different submission deadlines. None of these systems talk to each other. All of them are mandatory.
If the prime or an upper-tier sub applied the wrong wage determination to your trade, the back-pay liability still rolls downhill to the employer of record. That is you. Without a system that validates rates before submission, you have no way to confirm the wage determination your prime assigned is actually correct for your workers and your project location.
HOW SKILLSMART HELPS
SkillSmart applies the correct prevailing wage rate to each trade classification on each project automatically. When a Davis-Bacon wage determination updates or a state rate changes, the platform pushes the new rate to every active project it affects. You do not need to check SAM.gov or download PDFs. When you open your submission, the rates are already there, and they are correct.
Whether you are working for one prime or five, every project that uses SkillSmart shows up in your single subcontractor portal. Same login. Same interface. Same workflow. Enter your crew hours, confirm classifications, review the validated rates, and submit. The system tells you exactly what is due and when, project by project, so nothing slips through.
Before you submit certified payroll, SkillSmart checks every line against the project’s wage determination. Wrong classification? Flagged. Rate below prevailing wage? Flagged. Missing fringe calculation? Flagged. You fix issues before the prime ever sees your submission, which means no rejected payrolls, no resubmissions, and documentation that proves you paid correctly if a question comes up later.
INSTANT DEMO
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Trusted by trade contractors and subcontractors on prevailing wage projects across the country
“We run electrical crews on 6 prevailing wage projects right now for 4 different primes. Before SkillSmart, I had a different login and a different spreadsheet for each one. I was spending half of every Friday just getting certified payroll submitted. Now I log into one portal, my rates are already there, I enter hours, and the system checks everything before I submit. Last month I had zero rejected payrolls for the first time ever.”
Project Manager
Regional Electrical Contractor
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Answers to the questions electricians, plumbers, ironworkers, and specialty trade contractors ask most about certified payroll submissions, prevailing wage rates, and compliance documentation.
Subcontractor compliance software is a platform that helps trade contractors submit certified payroll, track prevailing wage rates by trade classification, and maintain documentation for prevailing wage projects. Instead of filling out spreadsheets and emailing them to your prime, you submit through a portal that validates your data against the project’s wage determination before it goes through. SkillSmart handles all of this in one place across every project you are working on.
Your prime contractor or project owner sets up the project in SkillSmart and invites you as a subcontractor. You get your own login and see only your projects. Each week, you enter worker hours by trade classification, confirm rates, and submit. The system validates every line against the project’s wage determination before submission. If something does not match, you see a flag and can fix it before the prime reviews. Submitted payrolls are stored and available for audit documentation.
SkillSmart applies the correct Davis-Bacon or state prevailing wage rate to each trade classification on each project automatically. When you open your submission form, the applicable rate for your trade and project location is already populated. If a wage determination updates mid-project, the platform pushes the new rate to your active projects so you are always working with current numbers.
If a worker is paid below the prevailing wage, the employer of record is liable for back-pay. For subcontractors, that means you owe the difference between what you paid and the correct rate, plus potential penalties. On Davis-Bacon projects, willful violations can lead to debarment from federal contracts. SkillSmart validates every submission against the project’s wage determination before filing, so rate errors are caught before they become violations.
Yes. Every project that uses SkillSmart appears in your single subcontractor portal regardless of which prime contractor manages the project. You use one login, one interface, and one workflow for all your prevailing wage submissions. Each project shows its own wage determination, submission deadline, and status independently.
Yes. SkillSmart supports both the new and legacy WH-347 form versions. The system uses whichever version the project requires. Both versions are validated against the same wage determination data and produce the same audit-ready records. You do not need to track which form version applies to which project.
Your prime contractor or project owner sends you an invitation through the platform. You create your login, add your workers and trade classifications, and you are ready to submit. Most subcontractors complete their first certified payroll submission within the first week. If you want your prime to adopt SkillSmart, you can request a demo and we will walk both of you through the setup.
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