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The WH-347 is the DOL's official certified payroll form. Contractors and subs use it to report weekly payroll on federal and federally assisted construction under the Davis-Bacon Act.
It captures every worker's hours, classification, hourly rate, fringes, deductions, and net pay for the week. It also has the Statement of Compliance, where you swear under penalty of perjury that workers got at least the prevailing wage.
Technically the WH-347 is optional (you can use any format with the same info), but it's the de facto standard. Use it and you're guaranteed to capture every required field and meet federal regs under 29 CFR 3.3 and 29 CFR 5.5(a)(3).
If your contract is federally funded or federally assisted and the contract exceeds $2,000, you and every sub submit weekly certified payroll. That includes:
Even sole proprietors and single-person LLCs file certified payroll on Davis-Bacon jobs. The $2,000 threshold is a contract threshold, not a per-worker threshold. Once you cross it, it hits every trade on the job.
Nine columns plus header fields. Here's what goes in each one.
The back of the WH-347 (or Form WH-348 if you use an alternate format) has theStatement of Compliance. You or your authorized payroll officer signs it — it's a sworn declaration that certifies four things:
That the payroll shown is complete and correct
That each worker has been paid no less than the applicable prevailing wage rate (or has been paid the fringe benefit amount to an approved benefit plan)
That no rebates or kickbacks have been paid, either directly or indirectly, from any worker
That workers have been paid the full weekly wages for all hours worked on the project
Signing a false Statement of Compliance is a federal crime.
Under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 and 31 U.S.C. § 3729, falsifying certified payroll can get you fines, debarment, and prison. Don't sign until the numbers are right.
What DOL auditors find over and over. Fix these and you'll survive almost any audit.
Same legal report. Very different workflow. Honest comparison below.
| Task | Manual (Spreadsheet / PDF) | CertifiedPayrollPro |
|---|---|---|
| Time per weekly report | 2–3 hours | 2–10 minutes |
| Pulling wage determinations | Search SAM.gov manually | Auto-pulled by project |
| Fringe benefit calculations | Manual math, error-prone | Automatic |
| Classification validation | You double-check | System validates |
| Overtime calculations (CWHSSA) | Manual | Automatic |
| Arithmetic errors | Common | Impossible |
| Statement of Compliance | Hand-sign every week | Digital signature, auto-attached |
| Missing required fields | Easy to miss | Pre-submission check |
| Submit to multiple agencies | Email attachment | PDF export or portal upload |
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It's the DOL's official certified payroll form for reporting weekly payroll on federal or federally assisted construction under the Davis-Bacon Act. Documents hours worked, wages paid, fringe benefits, deductions, and the signed Statement of Compliance swearing you paid at least the prevailing wage.
Any GC or sub on a federal or federally funded construction job over $2,000 files weekly. WH-347 or an equivalent form with the same info. That's GCs, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, roofing, concrete, painting, HVAC — every trade on a Davis-Bacon job.
Technically, the WH-347 is optional. You can use any format that has the same information. But the official form is the easiest way to stay compliant because it already has every field you need. Most contracting agencies take it and a lot of them prefer it.
Weekly. You file a WH-347 for each work week, usually within 7 days of the pay period ending. The form covers a seven-day week, Saturday through Friday on the official DOL form.
It's the sworn declaration on the back of the WH-347 (or on a separate page). You or your payroll officer signs it, swearing under penalty of perjury that workers got at least the prevailing wage, nobody was forced to kick back wages, and fringes got paid either to the worker or into bona fide plans. Lying on it is a federal crime.
Small mistakes? File an amended submission. Systemic underpayments or misclassifications are a different story — back wages owed, DOL investigations, held contract funds, up to 3-year debarment, and criminal prosecution for willful fraud.
Free PDF from the DOL at dol.gov/whd/forms/wh347.pdf. Print it and fill it out by hand if you want. Most contractors use software to generate it — saves hours a week and kills the math errors.
Doing it by hand runs 2-3 hours a week per project, depending on crew size. That's splitting hours by classification, calculating fringes, reconciling wages, and double-checking the prevailing wage. With software, the same report takes 2-10 minutes.
The usual suspects: (1) misclassifying workers — paying laborer rate for carpentry work, (2) missing or wrong fringe benefits, (3) using the wrong wage determination, (4) bad overtime math, (5) filing late, (6) arithmetic errors in the weekly totals, (7) forgetting to sign the Statement of Compliance.
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