Certified payroll requirements for City of San Diego projects
What California public works subcontractors owe, and keep owing every payroll week, when the awarding body is City of San Diego. With live registration data from DIR project filings.
Data updated 2026-10-14
Recent City of San Diego project registrations
New PWC-100 project registrations naming City of San Diego 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 | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Hope Cemetery Landscaping | 2026-10-14 | |
| Resurface North Park Recreation Center | 2026-10-13 | Furnish all labor and material to repair (8) areas where bleacher wheels track (approximately 60 feet of wood |
| Rosecrans & Byron St Shel Isl Signal | 2026-10-08 | |
| HSSD Plumbing Maintenance | 2026-10-07 | |
| Five Year Automatic Sprinkler Systems Te | 2026-10-07 | |
| As-Nd UUP Elct Distrb Syst-C-1-H262674-M | 2026-10-06 | |
| Electrically test Rotor, rings, etc -PS2 | 2026-10-05 | |
| As-needed UUP Electrical Distribution Sy | 2026-10-05 | Open purchase order NTE $35,000.00 for troubleshooting, service calls, and repairs as needed district wide. No |
The portal situation
City of San Diego collects certified payroll through PRISM Compliance Management, the City's system of record (source). The City of San Diego takes certified payroll records through PRISM. That satisfies the City's monitoring, not the state's: the direct DIR eCPR filing is a separate obligation.
The two-filing reality is the part that catches subs: the portal upload answers the awarding body, and the eCPR answers the state. Doing one does not do the other. Our guide LCPtracker vs DIR walks through why, in DIR's own words.
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 city
City projects range from small park jobs to major capital work, and city compliance practices vary just as widely. Some cities run portals, most do not. The constant is the state side: on a non-exempt city project you owe eCPRs directly to DIR at least monthly, and the city can hold progress payments over certified payroll problems.
Trades recently listed on City of San Diego work
- Electrical (C-10): 11 contractors
- General engineering (A): 9 contractors
- General building (B): 8 contractors
- HVAC (C-20): 4 contractors
- Fire protection (C-16): 3 contractors
- Landscaping (C-27): 3 contractors