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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 certify that workers got at least the prevailing wage. Willfully falsifying it carries criminal and civil liability.
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).
The DOL revised the WH-347 in January 2025 (Rev. January 2025, OMB No. 1235-0008, expires 01/31/2028). The revision relettered the columns (1A through 9), dropped the withholding exemptions column, added a Wage Determination No. field to the header, split fringe reporting into plan credits (6B) and cash in lieu (6C), and rebuilt the Statement of Compliance around six checkbox certifications. If your template still shows nine plain columns and 4(a)/4(b)/4(c) fringe boxes, you're on the old form.
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.
Columns 1A through 9 on the January 2025 form, plus header fields. Here's what goes in each one.
Page 2 of the WH-347 is the Statement of Compliance. You or your authorized payroll officer signs it — it's a sworn declaration. The January 2025 revision restructured it into six checkbox certifications:
That the payroll is correct and complete, and that wage and fringe rates paid meet or exceed the applicable wage determination rates, including credit for reasonably anticipated costs of bona fide benefit plans
That your regular payrolls and basic payroll records are complete and accurate, and available on request
That each worker's labor classification matches the work they actually performed
That any apprentices are duly registered with the Office of Apprenticeship (OA) or a State Apprenticeship Agency (SAA), with the apprenticeship program details listed in the table provided
That fringe benefits were paid in cash and/or into bona fide plans, with the Hourly Credit for Fringe Benefits table completed whenever column 6B shows an amount
That workers were paid full weekly wages with no rebates and no deductions except permissible ones under 29 CFR part 3
Signing a false Statement of Compliance is a federal crime.
The form itself warns that willful falsification may subject you to civil or criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 and 31 U.S.C. § 231. That means 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, within 7 days after the regular payment date for that period (29 CFR 3.4(a)) - the clock starts when you pay the workers, not when the pay period ends. The form covers a seven-day payroll week; you write the days and dates of your work week into column 4 and the week ending date in the header.
It's the certification on page 2 of the WH-347. On the January 2025 form it has six checkbox certifications covering payroll accuracy, records, classifications, apprentices, fringe benefits, and full payment of wages with no kickbacks or impermissible deductions. You or your payroll officer signs it. Willfully falsifying it is a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. 1001 and can trigger False Claims Act liability under 31 U.S.C. 3729.
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 from the DOL's forms page at dol.gov/agencies/whd/forms/wh347. Make sure you grab the current version (Rev. January 2025). 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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