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title: Certified Payroll for California Public Agencies Projects
url: https://wellstanding.com/requirements/type/public-agency/
description: Certified payroll requirements across California public agencies: live project registration activity, portal facts, DIR duties and penalties.
type: typehub
publisher: WellStanding Certified Payroll
---
# Certified payroll on public agencies' projects in California

Live registration activity across California public agencies, and the certified payroll duties their projects carry. Generated from DIR's public project registrations.

Data updated 2026-10-18

10public agencies with recent registrations

87projects registered 2026-06-26 to 2026-10-18

49subcontractor listings on those projects

## Working for a public agency

Whoever the awarding body is, California's baseline does not move: on a registered public works project you file eCPRs directly with DIR at least monthly under your own PWCR registration, and you answer any Labor Code 1776 records request within 10 days or face the $100 per worker per day penalty.

## 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=LAB&sectionNum=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](https://www.dir.ca.gov/Public-Works/ecprfaq.html)).
- **Federal WH-347 weekly** when federal money is in the project, with the Statement of Compliance signed ([U.S. Department of Labor](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/forms/wh347)).
- **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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=LAB&sectionNum=1776)). From January 1, 2027, [SB 909](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB909) (Chapter 660, Statutes of 2026) raises it to $140 per worker per calendar day; [what SB 909 changes](https://wellstanding.com/guides/sb-909-prevailing-wage-penalty-increases-2027/).

## Public agencies registering work right now

- [Sacramento Area Sewer District](https://wellstanding.com/requirements/sacramento-area-sewer-district/) 14 recent projects
- [Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission](https://wellstanding.com/requirements/energy-resources-conservation-and-development-commission/) 11 recent projects
- [UCSF Real Estate](https://wellstanding.com/requirements/ucsf-real-estate/) 10 recent projects
- [Riverside Public Utilities - Electric](https://wellstanding.com/requirements/riverside-public-utilities-electric/) 9 recent projects
- [UC DAVIS MEDICAL CENTER](https://wellstanding.com/requirements/uc-davis-medical-center/) 8 recent projects
- [Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District](https://wellstanding.com/requirements/midpeninsula-regional-open-space-district/) 7 recent projects
- [STE Electric DBA Solar Technologies](https://wellstanding.com/requirements/ste-electric-dba-solar-technologies/) 7 recent projects
- [Sun Light & Power](https://wellstanding.com/requirements/sun-light-power/) 7 recent projects
- [UC San Diego](https://wellstanding.com/requirements/uc-san-diego/) 7 recent projects
- [University of CA-Berkeley](https://wellstanding.com/requirements/university-of-ca-berkeley/) 7 recent projects

### Keep reading

- [California certified payroll: the complete guide](https://wellstanding.com/guides/california-certified-payroll/)
- [LCPtracker vs DIR](https://wellstanding.com/guides/lcptracker-vs-dir/)

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