Certified payroll requirements for LAUSD projects
What California public works subcontractors owe, and keep owing every payroll week, when the awarding body is Los Angeles Unified School District. With live registration data from DIR project filings.
Data updated 2026-09-19
Recent LAUSD project registrations
New PWC-100 project registrations naming LAUSD 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pio Pico Middle School | 2026-09-18 | |
| ROBERTI EARLY EDUCATION CENTER | 2026-09-14 | Rubber surface replacement at six (6) elementary sites |
| P & I Ceiling Tile CCS in 24, 25, Office | 2026-09-14 | |
| 2610093 - Dorris Place ES | 2026-09-11 | |
| Westchester HS | 2026-09-03 | |
| Locke College Preparatory Academy | 2026-07-06 | |
| Dorsey HS | 2026-07-06 | WATERPROOFING AND RESTORATION SERVICES - CITYWIDE |
| 2610064 - Haynes CES | 2026-07-01 |
The portal situation
Certified payroll on LAUSD work runs through the LAUSD Certified Payroll Reporting System, the district's own portal.
LAUSD runs its own certified payroll reporting system and holds one of the four legacy Labor Compliance Programs, so LAUSD projects are generally exempt from the direct DIR eCPR filing. The WH-347 duty is untouched on federally assisted work.
What you still owe on these projects
The exemption changes where certified payroll goes, not whether it exists. The current exemption list is on DIR's eCPR exemptions page, and three duties survive it:
- Certified payroll still gets prepared and submitted through the channel this body names in the contract. The exemption moves the destination, not the work.
- On federally assisted projects the federal WH-347 with its Statement of Compliance is due every week under Davis-Bacon rules. The form and instructions live at the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Labor Code 1776 record duties apply on every California public works job: keep certified records and produce them within 10 days of a written request or face the $100 per worker per day penalty, enforceable by withholding from progress payments (Labor Code 1776).
If you also work projects for any body outside the four legacy programs, the direct DIR eCPR duty applies there in full. Most subs mix both kinds of work, which is exactly the mess we manage.
Working for a school district
School district work is bond-funded in waves, which is why districts register batches of projects at once and why a sub can go from zero to three active public works jobs in a month. Districts rarely run their own compliance portal. Unless the district's contract names one, your certified payroll obligations are the standard pair: the direct DIR eCPR filing under your own PWCR registration, and the federal WH-347 when federal money is in the project. District business offices do respond to labor compliance complaints, and progress payments on district work can be withheld over missing certified payroll.
Trades recently listed on LAUSD work
- General building (B): 15 contractors
- General engineering (A): 13 contractors
- Electrical (C-10): 6 contractors
- Plumbing (C-36): 4 contractors
- HVAC (C-20): 2 contractors
- D-12 (D-12): 2 contractors