The Electronic Certified Payroll Mandate Nobody Told You About (Until Now)

January 1st changed everything for Prevailing Wage Contractors.

Electronic certified payroll filing isn't coming—it's already here. The NYSDOL portal. Every submission. No exceptions.

And the penalties? They don't care that you're busy running jobs.

Miss a deadline? $100 per day starts adding up after 14 days. That's $3,000 per month for a single missed report.

In New Jersey, repeat offenders are looking at $5,000 per violation.

Right now, contractors across the tri-state are scrambling. Trying to figure out portal logins. Wrestling with electronic formatting requirements. Learning prevailing wage calculations they've never had to deal with before.

Here's What Most People Don't Understand - Certified Payroll

You didn't get into construction to become a compliance expert.

You started your business to build things. To run crews. To win bids and deliver projects.

Not to spend Tuesday afternoons decoding government portals and praying you formatted your CPRs correctly.

There's a Better Way

You call in your hours Tuesday morning. We handle the rest.

• Electronic submissions to the NYSDOL portal

• Prevailing wage calculations (including fringes, benefits, and annualization)

• Audit documentation that actually holds up when the DOL comes knocking

  
  

No new software to buy. No portals to master. No lying awake wondering if you did it right.

Just payroll that works—and keeps you compliant.

What to Do Next

Option 1: Download our 2026 compliance checklist (it's actually useful, not just a sales pitch) → https://bit.ly/4b7nrCS

Option 2: Let us take certified payroll off your plate entirely → https://bit.ly/46AZlNS

Questions?

Call us: 1-800-466-0506

My Construction Payroll specializes in prevailing wage compliance for contractors in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. We've been doing this since before electronic filing was mandatory—which means we already know how to keep you out of trouble.