Crew & Office Training
Sessions for project managers, payroll staff, and foremen, taught with your own projects and paperwork instead of generic slides.
Most payroll violations start with someone who was never shown how.
A foreman writes "labor" on a timecard for a guy who ran the excavator all afternoon. A payroll clerk takes full fringe credit for a health plan the worker only had half the year. A PM signs a subcontract without knowing the job needs a DAS-140 sent before the first apprentice shows up. None of it is intentional, and all of it ends up on the certified payroll.
Our training is built around those mistakes. We teach your office and field people what prevailing wage law asks of their part of the job, using your own wage determinations, timecards, and payroll reports as the examples.
Sessions are taught by people who review certified payroll as part of their daily work, so the questions your team brings get real answers, not a reference to slide 40.
What we cover
Prevailing Wage Fundamentals
How wage determinations, craft classifications, overtime, and fringe benefits actually work on federal and state funded construction projects.
Certified Payroll Workshops
Hands on training completing and reviewing certified payroll reports, statements of compliance, and electronic submissions for public works jobs.
Apprenticeship Requirements
Dispatch requests, journeyman to apprentice ratios, and training fund contributions. These are the violations that catch contractors most often.
Agency and Audit Readiness
What labor compliance investigators look for on a jobsite, which payroll records to keep, and how to respond when an inquiry arrives.
Custom Programs
Training built for your niche: renewable energy and IRA projects, affordable housing construction, California DIR requirements, or awarding agency staff education.
What you get, in writing.
Nothing here lives in someone's inbox. Each of these is a document you keep, and together they're the record you hand an agency if a question ever comes up.
A session plan built for your crew
Before we schedule, we talk with you about who's attending, what kind of public work you do, and the mistakes you've already seen. The outline follows from that.
Examples from your own projects
We use your determinations, timecards, and payrolls (with names removed if you want) so people learn on the documents they'll actually fill out.
Separate tracks for office and field
Payroll and accounting staff get the forms and the math. Foremen and supers get timecards, classifications, and what to say when an investigator walks onto the site.
Reference sheets to keep
Short, printable guides for the office and the trailer: classification notes, overtime rules, apprenticeship steps, and submission deadlines.
Follow-up questions after the session
When the first real payroll comes up after training, your team can send us questions about it.
What contractors ask about this service.
Who should attend?+−
Anyone who touches a timecard, a payroll, or a subcontract on public work. That's usually payroll and accounting staff, PMs, estimators, and the foremen and superintendents who fill out daily time.
On site or remote?+−
Either. Field crews usually do better in person at the office or the job trailer. Payroll and office sessions work fine over video, especially for companies with more than one location.
Do you train agency or owner staff?+−
Yes. We run sessions for awarding body staff and owner's reps on what to look for in a certified payroll and how to follow up with contractors.
How long is a session?+−
It depends on the group and the topics. A focused payroll workshop can fit in a morning. A full program for office and field may be several shorter sessions. We'll propose a format once we know who's attending.
Bidding a public works job, or holding a notice?
Send us the contract, the wage determination, or the letter. We'll tell you what applies and what it takes to handle it.
Tell us about your project.
Tell us the job, who's funding it, and what you need help with. You'll hear back within one business day.
- Call the office
- (562) 418-4269
- Office
- 444 West Ocean Blvd., Suite 800
Long Beach, CA 90802 - Hours
- Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific