Certified Payroll in California
Soft Home Global provides Davis-Bacon and state prevailing wage filing for California public works contractors at $1,800 per seat per month. Full time, worked during California business hours, inside your own system.
What is specific to California
California requires public works contractors to register with the DIR and file electronic certified payroll through the eCPR portal.
A rejected filing that sits unworked is the same as no filing, and on a California public job it can hold up a progress payment on the whole contract. The seat works rejections until the state marks the record approved.
What a certified payroll seat does in California
Davis-Bacon and state prevailing wage, filed weekly into whichever portal the agency uses.
- WH-347 or the state equivalent produced weekly
- Workers classified against the right determination for county and trade
- Base rate split from fringe, credits applied correctly
- Apprentice ratios checked before filing
- Rejection queue worked until every report reads ACCEPTED
- Worked during California business hours, not queued overnight
Working California hours
California runs on Pacific time, 13 hours behind our floor in Rawalpindi. To be at a desk for your nine to five, the shift here runs 10pm to 6am, and 9pm to 5am once the clocks go forward. Pakistan does not observe daylight saving, so the shift moves on this side rather than yours.
That is the part that decides whether follow-up happens at all: a payer’s phone lines are open on California hours and nobody else’s.
What it costs in California
$1,800
Per seat, per month, in US dollars — $21,600 a year for one full-time person, forty hours a week, on California hours. No annual contract, no percentage of collections, no setup fee and no software to buy. Seat prices across all roles in California run $1,700 to $2,800; the full list is published.
That is the entire invoice. Run your own figures against a percentage vendor or a hire rather than take ours.
Getting started in California
About a week from a signed agreement to a person working your queue, and that week of training on your workflow is not billed on top. The work happens in your own system under a login you issue, so there is nothing to migrate and nothing to install. The week, step by step, and what is signed before anyone has access.
Questions
Do you work with California contractors?
Yes. California accounts are worked during California office hours rather than queued overnight, because a payer's phone lines are open then and at no other time.
What is different about California?
California requires public works contractors to register with the DIR and file electronic certified payroll through the eCPR portal.
How much does certified payroll cost in California?
$1,800 per seat per month — $21,600 a year for a full-time person, forty hours a week. Every seat price is published at softhomeglobal.com/pricing.
What hours will somebody actually be working our California queue?
California is on Pacific time, 13 hours behind Rawalpindi. The shift here runs 10pm to 6am so your seat is at a desk for your full working day, shifting to 9pm to 5am while daylight saving is in force — Pakistan does not observe it, so the change happens on our side.
Do you file certified payroll for California yourselves?
We prepare and submit the weekly filings for your crews and work the rejections until the record is accepted. We are not your legal adviser on wage determination or classification disputes — where a call is genuinely a legal question, we will say so rather than guess, because a wrong classification is your liability and not a clerical matter.
Is this a percentage of what you collect?
No — a flat monthly rate per seat, published at softhomeglobal.com/pricing. A percentage bills you most in your best month and points the vendor at the easy accounts.
What is the minimum commitment, and how quickly can somebody start?
One seat for one month, cancellable on thirty days notice, and about a week from a signed agreement to a person working your queue. The week of training is not billed. The steps are at softhomeglobal.com/how-it-works.
Is our patient data safe offshore?
A Business Associate Agreement is signed before anyone has access, and the work happens in your own system under a login you issue, so every action is attributable to a person in your audit trail. The controls are listed at softhomeglobal.com/security.
Next step
One seat on your California work
Twenty minutes on a call is enough to tell whether this fits. If it does not, I will say so.
Or write to ops@softhomeglobal.com