Prevailing wage laws are critical to ensuring fair pay, quality workmanship, and responsible use of public funds on government-funded construction projects. But in practice, enforcing these laws has become increasingly difficult. Most agencies still rely on outdated, paper-based systems that are disconnected, labor-intensive, and reactive by design.

Contractor registration often lives in one system, certified payrolls are submitted in inconsistent formats — if submitted digitally at all — and staff must manually sift through documents to identify violations. Without real-time validation or cross-system visibility, enforcement teams are often left playing catch-up, responding to complaints or launching audits only after wage theft has already occurred.

This fragmented approach not only puts workers at risk of underpayment but also places honest contractors at a competitive disadvantage and undermines trust in public contracting. Agencies face growing expectations for transparency and accountability, but without the right infrastructure, their ability to deliver is limited.

That’s why we built the Certified Payroll Hub (or "The Hub" for short): to give public agencies a connected, digital system for enforcing prevailing wage laws proactively, accurately, and at scale.