Check Davis-Bacon rates for plumber work in Miami before you bid or run payroll.
Drop the wage determination from your Miami Dade County bid package. In about two minutes you get classification candidates with real rates, plus the issues that would get a certified payroll kicked back.
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Free preview first. Full report is a one-time $39 — less than the first half-hour of untangling it by hand. No subscription, no account.
1Add your wage determinationDrop the PDF from your bid package or SAM.gov download, or paste the text. Only have a WD number? We link you straight to it.
2Confirm in plain EnglishWe read the document and ask two simple questions about where it came from and your contract. Pick your county and trade from what the document covers.
3Preview free, then decideSee classification candidates with real base and fringe rates plus issue counts before paying anything. Unlock the full packet only if it's worth it.
Why contractors precheck
Davis-Bacon mistakes don't show up as warnings — they show up as money:
What a mistake costs
- Withheld payments — the agency can hold your contract payments until back wages are made right
- Back wages — underpayments are owed to the workers, on top of what you already paid
- A signed federal certification every week — the Statement of Compliance you sign on each payroll is a federal statement; catching a problem before you sign beats explaining it after
- Debarment — willful violations can bar you from all federal work for up to 3 years
- Back-charges — primes routinely pass compliance penalties down to the sub that caused them
Where it usually goes wrong
- Paying from a similar-sounding classification instead of the one the work actually matches
- Using this year's SAM.gov rates when the contract locked in last year's modification
- Forgetting the fringe — the benefit dollars owed on top of the base rate
- Working from the wrong county's or wrong construction type's document entirely
- A first certified payroll that's late, unnumbered, or unsigned
What the full report looks like
The free preview shows candidates and issue counts. The paid report is the row-by-row workup. Here's a condensed example from a Brooklyn building payroll:
PAID REPORT SAMPLE
Messy payroll example — Kings County, NY Building
Public wage determination NY20260003, mod 1; seven synthetic payroll rows across boiler, brick, carpenter, marble, electrical, and trucking work.
4fix-first payroll issues
7rows or fields to double-check
100+document pay rates reviewed
1WH-347 starter packet
Report opens with what needs attentionFix first
Bri Bricklayer is short $531.60 this weekPaid $60.00 base + $30.00 fringe. Required $67.39 base + $35.90 fringe, so the report calls out both the base-rate problem and the total package problem before a WH-347 is signed.
Carl Carpenter cannot be checked from a guessThe document has carpenter rows for different scopes. The report shows the matching rows and waits for a classification choice before doing wage math.
Apprentice, benefit-plan, trucking, and overtime rows route to reviewAndy needs registered-apprentice confirmation, Opal's $17.54 plan credit needs benefit-plan support, Tina's truck-driver row carries scope and pay questions, and Otis has overtime hours.
Boris Boilermaker stays cleanPaid $68.88 base + $49.83 fringe against the same required row, so the report leaves that worker alone instead of creating noise.
Crew wage sheet excerptPayroll detail
| Worker | Payroll row | Document row | Report result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boris | BOILERMAKER, 40 hours, $68.88 + $49.83 | BOILERMAKER, $68.88 + $49.83 | Clean |
| Bri | BRICKLAYER, 40 hours, $60.00 + $30.00 | BRICKLAYER, $67.39 + $35.90 | Fix $531.60 |
| Carl | CARPENTER, 40 hours, $59.05 + $48.08 | Building carpenter or heavy/highway carpenter | Choose row |
| Opal | MARBLE FINISHER, $20.00 cash fringe + $17.54 plan credit | MARBLE FINISHER, $49.99 + $37.54 | Plan review |
WH-347 starter and job-file outputsFull packet
- WH-347 starter: payroll no. 1, week ending 06/05/2026, decision NY20260003 mod 1, Kings County, Building.
- Form timing: because this run has pay errors and review rows, the draft stays paused by default and tells you what to fix before preparing it.
- Checklist: signed Statement of Compliance, consecutive payroll numbering, fringe cash-vs-plan notes, and no full SSNs in the worksheet.
- Exports: printable report, crew wage sheet, findings CSV, and editable WH-347 PDF when the run is ready.
Plain-English takeaway: The value is not just finding a rate. The report tells you which workers are fine, which rows need money, which rows need a classification decision, and whether the certified payroll form should wait.
Every report is generated from the wage determination and payroll details you provide. The tool flags issues for review; it does not approve classifications or certify compliance.
Built for the occasional federal job
What it does
- Translates "I need a plumber in Memphis" into the candidate rows of your actual wage determination
- Catches wrong-county, wrong-modification, and stale-document problems before they cost you
- Screens payroll rows for base + fringe shortfalls and WH-347 gaps
- Gives you a printable report you can keep with the job file
What it doesn't do
- It is not legal, payroll, or tax advice and never decides a classification for you
- It doesn't certify compliance or guarantee agency acceptance
- It won't charge you when your document can't support a useful report — checkout stays locked
- It doesn't store payroll text, worker names, or SSNs
Automated screening only. Confirm classifications, wage determinations, and payroll treatment with the contracting agency or a qualified advisor. Reports expire after 14 days and can be deleted by you at any time.