Certified payroll on school districts' projects in California
Live registration activity across California school districts, and the certified payroll duties their projects carry. Generated from DIR's public project registrations.
Data updated 2026-07-01
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.
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).
School districts registering work right now
- LAUSD 5 recent projects
- Redlands Unified School District 11 recent projects
- Covina-Valley Unified School District 9 recent projects
- Clovis Unified School District 7 recent projects
- Glendale Unified School District 7 recent projects
- Palmdale School District 5 recent projects
- Brea Olinda Unified School District 3 recent projects
- Capistrano Unified School District 3 recent projects
- Kern High School District 3 recent projects
- Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District 3 recent projects
- Nevada County Superintendent of Schools 3 recent projects
- Oceanside Unified School District 3 recent projects
- Poway Unified School District 3 recent projects