Certified payroll requirements, by awarding body and county

Who is building, what they require, and what you owe. These pages regenerate from DIR's public project registrations, so the counts reflect what awarding bodies actually registered, not last year's directory.

Data updated 2026-09-19

By awarding body

City

City of Los Angeles 40 recent projects
City and County of San Francisco 10 recent projects
City of San Diego 14 recent projects
City of Santa Cruz - Public Works Department - Wastewater Treatment Facility 21 recent projects
City of Burbank 13 recent projects
City of Santa Barbara - Purchasing 11 recent projects
City of Irvine 6 recent projects
City of Fresno - Capital Projects Dept. 5 recent projects
City of South Lake Tahoe 5 recent projects
City of Visalia - Purchasing 5 recent projects
CITY OF BERKELEY 4 recent projects
City of Chula Vista Open Space Division 4 recent projects
City of Lancaster 4 recent projects
City of Port Hueneme 1 4 recent projects
City of San Jose, Purchasing Dept 4 recent projects
City of San Rafael 4 recent projects
City of Thousand Oaks 4 recent projects
CITY OF OAKLAND OPW 3 recent projects
CITY OF STOCKTON - PUBLIC WORKS 3 recent projects
City of Bakersfield 3 recent projects
City of Beverly Hills - Department of Public Works 3 recent projects
City of Coachella 3 recent projects
City of Eastvale 3 recent projects
City of Escondido - Department of Public Works 3 recent projects
City of Mountain View 3 recent projects
City of Poway 3 recent projects
City of Rancho Palos Verdes 3 recent projects
City of San Jose 3 recent projects
City of San Luis Obispo 3 recent projects
City of Selma 3 recent projects
City of Sunnyvale 3 recent projects
City of Turlock 3 recent projects

School district

LAUSD 12 recent projects
Covina-Valley Unified School District 12 recent projects
Redlands Unified School District 12 recent projects
San Dieguito Union High School District 12 recent projects
Pasadena Unified School District 9 recent projects
Clovis Unified School District 8 recent projects
Glendale Unified School District 8 recent projects
Capistrano Unified School District 7 recent projects
Chino Valley Unified School District 7 recent projects
DOWNEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 7 recent projects
Poway Unified School District 7 recent projects
Oceanside Unified School District 6 recent projects
Palmdale School District 6 recent projects
San Jose Unified School District 6 recent projects
San Marcos Unified School District 5 recent projects
Twin Rivers Unified School District (eff. January 1, 2024) 5 recent projects
IRVINE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT M&O 4 recent projects
Kern High School District 4 recent projects
Lancaster School District 4 recent projects
Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District 4 recent projects
Pleasanton Unified School District 4 recent projects
Ramona Unified School District 4 recent projects
Brea Olinda Unified School District 3 recent projects
Central Unified School District - Maintenance 3 recent projects

County

County of Sacramento 9 recent projects
County of Los Angeles 11 recent projects
County of Santa Barbara General Services, Procurement Services 11 recent projects
San Joaquin County - Purchasing & Support Services 10 recent projects
County of Orange/OC Public Works 9 recent projects
County of San Bernardino - Project Management Division 7 recent projects
County of Tulare 6 recent projects
County of Ventura GSA 6 recent projects
County of Kern - Public Works 5 recent projects
County of Kern - Purchasing 5 recent projects
County of Monterey Public Works, Facilities and Parks 4 recent projects
County of Placer - Department of Public Works 4 recent projects
Stanislaus County Office of Education 4 recent projects
Contra Costa County Public Works Department 3 recent projects

University

University of California - San Diego 12 recent projects
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo 7 recent projects
UC Berkeley Facility Services 6 recent projects
University of California - Riverside 6 recent projects
University of California Santa Barbara 6 recent projects
University of California Santa Cruz 6 recent projects
California State University, Los Angeles 5 recent projects
University of California - Irvine 4 recent projects
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt 3 recent projects
California State University, Fullerton 3 recent projects

Other public agencies

Sacramento Area Sewer District 7 recent projects
Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified School Distric 6 recent projects
Riverside Public Utilities - Electric 6 recent projects
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District 4 recent projects
UC Merced Procurement Services 4 recent projects
UCSF Real Estate 4 recent projects
University of CA-Berkeley 4 recent projects
1st Light Sales Corp (AB 1104 ) 3 recent projects

Water or sanitation district

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California 7 recent projects
Santa Margarita Water District 6 recent projects
Calleguas Municipal Water District 3 recent projects
Camrosa Water District 3 recent projects

State agency

Caltrans 35 recent projects
Judicial Council of California - (PUB WORKS) 8 recent projects
CAL FIRE BSO 7 recent projects

Community college district

LACCD 3 recent projects
North Orange County Community College District 6 recent projects

Port

Port of Long Beach 4 recent projects
PORT OF OAKLAND 6 recent projects

Transit

BART 1 recent projects

By county

Los Angeles County 217 contractors newly listed
San Diego County 161 contractors newly listed
Orange County 153 contractors newly listed
Riverside County 99 contractors newly listed
San Bernardino County 89 contractors newly listed
Alameda County 64 contractors newly listed
Santa Clara County 60 contractors newly listed
Sacramento County 56 contractors newly listed
Fresno County 46 contractors newly listed
Kern County 38 contractors newly listed
Contra Costa County 34 contractors newly listed
Ventura County 34 contractors newly listed
San Francisco County 32 contractors newly listed
San Joaquin County 29 contractors newly listed
San Luis Obispo County 28 contractors newly listed
Stanislaus County 26 contractors newly listed
Placer County 25 contractors newly listed
Shasta County 23 contractors newly listed
San Mateo County 22 contractors newly listed
Santa Barbara County 22 contractors newly listed
Sonoma County 21 contractors newly listed
Solano County 20 contractors newly listed
Tulare County 18 contractors newly listed
Santa Cruz County 16 contractors newly listed
Monterey County 15 contractors newly listed
El Dorado County 12 contractors newly listed
Marin County 12 contractors newly listed
Sutter County 8 contractors newly listed

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