WH-347 built from the same time that hits job cost
Certified payroll comes from your crews’ field time (the exact hours that post to the job at burdened rates), so there’s no separate spreadsheet to keep in sync with prevailing-wage jobs.
One time entry, two jobs done
On prevailing-wage work, most contractors capture hours once for costing and then rebuild them again in a certified-payroll spreadsheet every week. The two drift, the WH-347 doesn't tie to the job cost, and a mistake means a rejected submission and a delayed payment.
SitewideOps captures field time once. Crews log hours on the mobile app; those hours hit job cost at burdened labor rates and, on jobs flagged for certified payroll, produce the WH-347 report directly. The report your compliance officer submits reads from the same time entries your project manager sees on the cost ledger: one source, no reconciliation.
To be clear about the boundary: SitewideOps is not a payroll system. It doesn't cut paychecks, calculate withholding, or file. Your payroll provider still does that. What it solves is the reporting side: the WH-347 and the prevailing-wage job costing come from the field time you already capture, instead of a spreadsheet rebuilt every week.
What makes certified payroll painless
The compliance report is a byproduct of good time capture, not a second job.
WH-347 report
Generate the federal WH-347 certified payroll report from field time: hours, classifications, and gross wages pulled from the same entries that hit job cost.
Per-job certified flag
Mark a work order as certified-payroll and the prevailing-wage handling switches on for that job’s time, no risk of it bleeding into private work.
Prevailing-wage groups
Prevailing-wage rate groups apply the right base and fringe to each classification, so field time on a public job is priced correctly from the start.
Burdened labor rates
Hours post to the job at burdened rates, and the same rates feed the certified report. Labor cost and payroll compliance never disagree.
From the field
Crews log time from the mobile app, offline-safe. There’s no timesheet to re-enter at the office before payroll can run certified reports.
No parallel spreadsheet
Because the WH-347 is generated from live time entries, there’s no separate certified-payroll workbook to maintain, version, or reconcile.
Why field time is the right source
Certified payroll fails when the data lives in two places. If the hours on the WH-347 came from a different capture than the hours hitting job cost, every discrepancy is a question from a labor compliance reviewer, and every correction has to be made twice.
SitewideOps closes that gap by design. The certified-payroll flag lives on the work order, prevailing-wage rate groups govern the classifications, and burdened rates carry through to both the cost ledger and the report. Your crews just log their day; the compliance report and the job cost both fall out of it.
Need the form itself explained? Our WH-347 certified payroll guide covers the columns, classifications, and common rejections.
Certified payroll and job costing are the same data. The hours that produce your WH-347 are the hours on the job-cost ledger, captured once, in the field.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. The federal WH-347 certified payroll report is generated from your crews’ field time (the same hours that hit job cost) with classifications and gross wages pulled from those entries rather than re-keyed into a spreadsheet.
No. SitewideOps is not a payroll system: it doesn’t cut paychecks, calculate withholding, or file. It solves the reporting side: the WH-347 and prevailing-wage job costing are generated from the field time you already capture, and your payroll provider keeps running payroll.
Yes. You can capture time in SitewideOps (in the app or on the platform) or keep the timekeeping or payroll system you already run and connect it through the open API, so hours move once instead of being duplicated or imported every week. Nothing forces you to switch tools you already trust.
Certified payroll is a per-job flag. Mark a work order as certified-payroll and the prevailing-wage handling applies only to that job’s time, so it never spills onto your private or negotiated work.
Prevailing-wage rate groups apply the correct base and fringe to each labor classification. Field time on a flagged job is priced with those rates from the moment it’s logged, and the same rates feed the WH-347.
Yes. That’s the core design. One time entry hits job cost at a burdened rate and feeds the certified report. Labor cost on the ledger and gross wages on the WH-347 come from the same source, so they can’t disagree.
Yes. Crews log time from the native mobile app, offline-safe and synced back to the office. There’s no separate timesheet to re-enter before certified payroll can run.
Stop rebuilding certified payroll every week
See the WH-347 fall out of the same field time that costs your prevailing-wage jobs.
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