Certified payroll requirements for BART projects
What California public works subcontractors owe, and keep owing every payroll week, when the awarding body is San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART). With live registration data from DIR project filings.
Data updated 2026-09-11
Recent BART project registrations
New PWC-100 project registrations naming BART as the awarding body, from DIR's public project registry. Every one of these projects means certified payroll for every contractor and sub on it, starting with the first week worked.
| Project | Registered |
|---|---|
| Heavy-Duty Steel Roll Up Door Install | 2026-09-11 |
The portal situation
BART directs contractors to Elation Systems for labor compliance. Confirm the current requirement in your contract documents. The direct DIR eCPR filing applies either way.
Whatever the portal answer turns out to be, it only ever adds a filing. It never removes the direct DIR eCPR duty. Our guide LCPtracker vs DIR covers the rule.
Your filing duties on these projects
- Direct DIR eCPR filing. On a registered public works project you submit electronic certified payroll records directly to DIR at least monthly, or more often when the contract says so, under your own PWCR registration (Labor Code 1771.4). DIR is explicit that submitting certified payroll to the awarding body, the prime, or a portal "does not put you in compliance with the state unless you submit eCPRs directly to DIR" (DIR eCPR FAQ).
- Federal WH-347 weekly when federal money is in the project, with the Statement of Compliance signed (U.S. Department of Labor).
- Records on demand. A written request for certified payroll records starts a 10 day clock. Miss it and the penalty is $100 per worker per calendar day, enforceable by withholding from your progress payments (Labor Code 1776).
Working for a transit
Transit agencies are heavy users of third-party compliance portals and their projects often carry federal funding, which adds the weekly WH-347 on top of the state eCPR. Expect a portal named in the contract, and expect the double-entry reality: the portal upload covers the agency's monitoring, the DIR filing covers the state, and both are yours.
Trades recently listed on BART work
- Doors and gates (D-28): 1 contractors