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 2026-10-14

By awarding body

School district

LAUSD 22 recent projects
San Dieguito Union High School District 16 recent projects
San Jose Unified School District 15 recent projects
Chino Valley Unified School District 14 recent projects
Covina-Valley Unified School District 13 recent projects
Jurupa Unified School District 13 recent projects
DOWNEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 12 recent projects
Redlands Unified School District 12 recent projects
Capistrano Unified School District 11 recent projects
Clovis Unified School District 11 recent projects
Pasadena Unified School District 11 recent projects
West Covina Unified School District 11 recent projects
Kern High School District 10 recent projects
Palmdale School District 10 recent projects
Val Verde Unified School District 10 recent projects
Lake Elsinore Unified School District 9 recent projects
Oceanside Unified School District 9 recent projects
Glendale Unified School District 8 recent projects
San Diego Unified School District 8 recent projects
San Marcos Unified School District 8 recent projects
Bakersfield City School District 1 7 recent projects
Orange Unified School District 7 recent projects
Poway Unified School District 7 recent projects
Rialto Unified School District - Purchasing Services 7 recent projects

City

City of Los Angeles 86 recent projects
City and County of San Francisco 15 recent projects
City of San Diego 43 recent projects
City of Santa Cruz - Public Works Department - Wastewater Treatment Facility 21 recent projects
City of Burbank 16 recent projects
City of Santa Barbara - Purchasing 15 recent projects
City of Anaheim Facility Services 10 recent projects
City of Fullerton 10 recent projects
City of Irvine 10 recent projects
City of San Jose, Purchasing Dept 9 recent projects
City of South Lake Tahoe 9 recent projects
City of Visalia - Purchasing 9 recent projects
City of Chula Vista Open Space Division 8 recent projects
City of Dana Point 8 recent projects
City of Fresno - Capital Projects Dept. 8 recent projects
City of Mountain View 8 recent projects
City of Thousand Oaks 8 recent projects
City of Bakersfield 6 recent projects
City of Beverly Hills - Department of Public Works 6 recent projects
City of Long Beach, Public Works Department 6 recent projects
City of Norwalk, Public Services Department 6 recent projects

County

County of Sacramento 27 recent projects
County of Los Angeles 23 recent projects
County of Santa Barbara General Services, Procurement Services 46 recent projects
San Joaquin County - Purchasing & Support Services 21 recent projects
County of Orange/OC Public Works 14 recent projects
County of Riverside - Facilities Management 14 recent projects
County of San Bernardino - Project Management Division 12 recent projects
San Bernardino County - DPW Trans. & Flood 12 recent projects
County of San Diego Department of General Services 11 recent projects
County of Monterey Public Works, Facilities and Parks 10 recent projects
County of San Luis Obispo 10 recent projects
County of Tulare 10 recent projects
County of El Dorado 9 recent projects
County of Kern - Public Works 9 recent projects
County of Kern - Purchasing 9 recent projects
County of Ventura GSA 8 recent projects
Orange County Sheriff Department 8 recent projects
County of Riverside - TLMA 7 recent projects

University

Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo 18 recent projects
University of California - San Diego 16 recent projects
UC Berkeley Facility Services 12 recent projects
University of California - Irvine 12 recent projects
University of California Santa Barbara 12 recent projects
University of California - Riverside 10 recent projects
California State University, Los Angeles 9 recent projects
San Jose State University 8 recent projects
Santa Clara Valley Water District - CCSU 8 recent projects
University of California Santa Cruz 8 recent projects
California State University, Fullerton 7 recent projects

Other public agencies

Sacramento Area Sewer District 13 recent projects
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission 11 recent projects
UCSF Real Estate 10 recent projects
Riverside Public Utilities - Electric 8 recent projects
UC DAVIS MEDICAL CENTER 8 recent projects
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District 7 recent projects
STE Electric DBA Solar Technologies 7 recent projects
University of CA-Berkeley 7 recent projects
Alameda Health System 6 recent projects
Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified School Distric 6 recent projects

Water or sanitation district

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California 19 recent projects
Santa Margarita Water District 12 recent projects
Imperial Irrigation District 10 recent projects
Irvine Ranch Water District 3 9 recent projects
Eastern Municipal Water District - Purchasing 7 recent projects
Moulton Niguel Water District 7 recent projects

State agency

Caltrans 61 recent projects
CAL FIRE BSO 16 recent projects
Judicial Council of California - (PUB WORKS) 16 recent projects
State of California Military Department 8 recent projects

Community college district

LACCD 10 recent projects
North Orange County Community College District 10 recent projects
VICTOR VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT 7 recent projects
Chaffey Community College District 6 recent projects

Transit

BART 4 recent projects

Port

Port of Long Beach 5 recent projects

By county

Los Angeles County 339 contractors newly listed
Orange County 253 contractors newly listed
San Diego County 232 contractors newly listed
Riverside County 165 contractors newly listed
San Bernardino County 152 contractors newly listed
Alameda County 102 contractors newly listed
Sacramento County 93 contractors newly listed
Santa Clara County 90 contractors newly listed
Fresno County 76 contractors newly listed
Contra Costa County 75 contractors newly listed
Kern County 68 contractors newly listed
San Luis Obispo County 62 contractors newly listed
San Francisco County 55 contractors newly listed
Ventura County 55 contractors newly listed
Santa Barbara County 51 contractors newly listed
Stanislaus County 48 contractors newly listed
San Joaquin County 47 contractors newly listed
Placer County 45 contractors newly listed
Sonoma County 38 contractors newly listed
Shasta County 34 contractors newly listed
San Mateo County 32 contractors newly listed
Solano County 30 contractors newly listed
Tulare County 27 contractors newly listed
El Dorado County 26 contractors newly listed
Marin County 20 contractors newly listed
Monterey County 20 contractors newly listed
Santa Cruz County 19 contractors newly listed
Imperial County 18 contractors newly listed
Yolo County 16 contractors newly listed
Butte County 14 contractors newly listed
Humboldt County 13 contractors newly listed
Merced County 13 contractors newly listed
Nevada County 12 contractors newly listed
Kings County 10 contractors newly listed
Sutter County 10 contractors newly listed

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