Why it matters
One wrong wage determination, a short fringe, a slipped apprentice ratio, or a lapsed registration and the awarding body holds your progress payment. Labor Code §1775 adds penalties per worker, per day, on top. Most of these errors are invisible on a read and surface months later at audit, as money that never arrives.
How we do the work
Lock the determinations
We pull the DIR general prevailing-wage determinations for each craft and county, locked to your project's bid-advertisement date, and reconcile every rate against the determination's own printed totals.
Capture the project once
Projects, crafts, DIR project IDs, registrations, and apprenticeship standards (DAS-140/142) are captured at onboarding. Nothing is re-asked week to week.
Run the pre-flight gate
Each week's payroll runs through an eleven-point check: wage determination, base-plus-fringe, overtime, classification, apprentice ratio, registration status, and data integrity. If a single check fails, it does not file.
File on your setup
Cleared payrolls file to DIR eCPR and, on federally funded work, to WH-347. No forced software switch; we work inside the accounts you already use.
Keep the record audit-ready
Every filing, check result, and determination is retained so a DIR or awarding-body audit is answered from the file, not reconstructed from memory.
What you receive
- Weekly certified payroll filed to DIR eCPR (and WH-347 where required)
- Pre-flight check report for every filing, kept on record
- Wage-determination register locked to bid dates per project
- Apprenticeship documentation tracking (DAS-140/142, ratios)
- Retroactive audit of past filings with dollar-quantified exposure
- Withheld-payment recovery support when money is already held
Flat monthly per active project, scaled by project count, with the initial compliance audit free. Configure this service and see your estimate in the engagement builder.
Questions contractors ask
What happens if a filing fails your checks?
It does not file. We fix the failure with you, re-run the gate, and file when it passes. That order of operations is the whole product.
Can you fix past filings?
Yes. A retroactive audit re-runs the gate over prior weeks, quantifies exposure in dollars, and produces the corrected filings and documentation to pursue release of withheld amounts.
Do you handle both state and federal requirements?
Yes. California eCPR under SB 854 and federal Davis-Bacon WH-347 both run through the same gate, including projects covered by both at once.
Aeternus Dynamics uses AI-assisted tools to help prepare and check compliance documents; all deliverables are reviewed by a qualified human before submission or use. Aeternus Dynamics is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. See our Terms & Disclosures.