Certified payroll requirements for County of Los Angeles projects
What California public works subcontractors owe, and keep owing every payroll week, when the awarding body is County of Los Angeles Public Works. With live registration data from DIR project filings.
Data updated 2026-09-19
Recent County of Los Angeles project registrations
New PWC-100 project registrations naming County of Los Angeles 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 |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose Creek WRP Stage III PAC | 2026-09-17 | McAllister Ranch Electrical and Solar |
| RRCC Parking Lot Seal Coat Stripe | 2026-09-16 | |
| Farnsworth Ampitheater | 2026-09-14 | |
| Countywide Group 99 | 2026-09-11 | |
| OP128598000 - On-Route Opportunity Charg | 2026-09-11 | |
| Countywide Group 100 | 2026-07-06 | |
| Landscape Maintenance Services for Locat | 2026-07-06 | Various Sites - Brush Clearance - Section C - United Pacific - W4 |
| Century+Restorative Care Village-Phase2 | 2026-07-01 | New construction development that will transform a long vacant lot in Lincoln Heights, East Los Angeles into 1 |
The portal situation
County of Los Angeles collects certified payroll through LCPtracker, and the County states plainly that certified payrolls are submitted on both the DIR system and LCPtracker (source). LA County is the clearest double-entry case in the state: its own guidance says certified payrolls go into both LCPtracker and the DIR system. Budget for both filings on every payroll week.
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 county
County public works departments buy across every trade, and several of the large counties run third-party compliance portals. A county portal upload is the county's monitoring copy. Unless the county is one of the four legacy Labor Compliance Programs, the direct DIR eCPR filing is still owed under your own registration.
Trades recently listed on County of Los Angeles work
- General engineering (A): 6 contractors
- General building (B): 5 contractors
- Electrical (C-10): 3 contractors
- Glazing (C-17): 1 contractors
- D-52 (D-52): 1 contractors
- Landscaping (C-27): 1 contractors