Certified payroll for painting subs (C-33) in California

The painting trade's certified payroll reality

Painter determinations look simple until the scope sheet does what painting scope sheets do: drywall repair pulls taper rates, high work pulls premium conditions where the determination provides them, and specialty coatings or sandblasting can sit under their own classifications. Repaint programs for school districts, the trade's most reliable public demand, often run through summer on compressed schedules, which means overtime and weekend multipliers show up in the very first filings. Painting also sees more small-contract public work than most trades, and small contracts still carry the full certified payroll apparatus: the filing burden is flat while the contract value is not, which is exactly the math that makes done-for-you filing pay for itself on modest jobs.

Whatever the craft mix, the mechanics are the same statewide: rates come from the project county's published determination (DIR lookup), the eCPR goes directly to DIR on non-exempt projects, and the federal WH-347 rides along weekly where federal funds apply. The full picture is in the complete guide.

Where painting public works is registering right now

From DIR's public PWC-100 registrations matched to CSLB license records: C-33-classified contractors newly listed on public works projects, by home county and by awarding body.

By contractor county

• Los Angeles County: 17
• Orange County: 14
• Sacramento County: 9
• Riverside County: 5
• San Bernardino County: 5
• San Diego County: 4

By awarding body

• North Orange County Community College District: 2 listings
• California State University, Los Angeles: 2 listings
• University of California, San Diego: 2 listings
• Caltrans: 2 listings
• Redlands Unified School District: 2 listings
• Paramount Unified School District: 2 listings