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Prevailing Wage Compliance · Pacific Northwest Trades
Prevailing Wage Compliance Systems for Contractors in Oregon, Washington & Idaho
Certified payroll, rate tracking, and apprenticeship ratios handled by a system instead of by a person doing math in a spreadsheet every week.
The problem
What prevailing wage compliance means for a trades business.
Prevailing wage compliance is the federal and state requirement that contractors on public works projects pay workers specific wage rates and benefits determined by government agencies for each job classification and geographic area. In Oregon and Washington, these requirements apply to a broad range of public and government-funded commercial contracts. We serve HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing contractors across the Pacific Northwest.
Meeting these requirements means tracking employee classifications, paying the correct rates, calculating fringe benefits correctly, and producing certified payroll reports that document compliance for every pay period. Doing this manually for a multi-person crew on multiple public works projects is one of the most time-consuming administrative burdens in the trades. We build the system that makes it accurate and manageable.
Certified payroll is produced correctly for every covered project without manual calculation
Wage rates are tracked by classification and updated when rates change
Apprenticeship ratios are monitored and documented throughout each project
Audit-ready documentation is maintained without retroactive scrambling
The compliance burden shifts from manual administrative work to a managed system
Your team can bid and win public works contracts without the back office being the constraint
Signals you need this
Who needs this.
Electrical contractors doing public works or government-funded commercial projects
Plumbing businesses pursuing larger commercial contracts with prevailing wage requirements
Any trades contractor doing work for public agencies, school districts, or municipalities
Businesses where prevailing wage compliance is currently managed by one person manually
Contractors who want to pursue public works bids but haven't had the administrative infrastructure to support them
Three or more and there's real money sitting in the gap. Usually it's not one big leak. It's a few small ones that compound every month.
Before and after
Without a prevailing wage system vs. With Sentric managing prevailing wage compliance
What we build
Certified payroll without the Sunday math.
Certified payroll from the system
Generated accurately each pay period from data that's already captured, not rebuilt in a spreadsheet.
Rates tracked by project
Wage determinations follow each job and update when the determinations do.
Audit-ready any day
Documentation maintained in real time, so an audit is a folder, not a fire drill.
We build it inside the tools you already pay for. If your field service platform and your accounting software can talk to each other, we make them. If something genuinely has to change, we'll say so and tell you why, but the tool was rarely the problem.
How it works
Three steps. No homework.
Walk one job
Thirty minutes. We take a real job, warts and all, and follow it from the day you sold it to the day the money hit the account. Every place it catches gets written down. You keep what we find whether you ever hire us or not.
Rank the friction
Prevailing Wage Compliance might not even be your biggest leak. If something else is costing you more, we'll tell you and start there instead.
Build it and run it
We build the fix, train your people on it, and stay on it until it holds. Then we take the next one. Everything we build is documented and yours, whether you keep us for a year or just a month.
Questions
What owners ask us first.
Do you require long-term contracts?
No. Month to month. You stay because the work is delivering.
What cities do you serve?
We serve trades contractors throughout Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. See the full city list below.
How long does implementation take?
Most system builds run 30 to 60 days depending on the state of your current setup. The free audit tells us what we are working with before we scope the build.
Can you work with our existing bookkeeper or CPA?
Yes. Our work is on the operational and technology side. We make sure your financial partners get clean, accurate data to work with.
How is this different from hiring an office manager?
An office manager executes inside whatever systems exist. We build the architecture and manage it so the systems stay current as the business grows.
What trades do you work with?
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing contractors doing $2M to $8M in annual revenue across Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
What does the free 30-minute audit cover?
We review your current systems, find where margin or time is leaking, and tell you what it is costing. No pitch and no commitment.
Do you implement or only advise?
We implement and manage. We configure your tools, document your processes, and run the systems ongoing.
Where we work
Prevailing Wage Compliance across the Northwest.
All work is remote, so location never changes what we can do. These pages cover the market specifics for each city.
Portland, ORSalem, OREugene, ORBend, ORMedford, ORHillsboro, ORGresham, ORCorvallis, ORAlbany, ORGrants Pass, ORRoseburg, ORKlamath Falls, OR
Seattle, WASpokane, WATacoma, WAVancouver, WABellevue, WAKennewick, WAYakima, WABellingham, WAOlympia, WAEverett, WA
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