Certified Payroll in Michigan
Soft Home Global provides Davis-Bacon and state prevailing wage filing for Michigan public works contractors at $1,600 per seat per month. Full time, worked during Michigan business hours, inside your own system.
What is specific to Michigan
Michigan repealed its prevailing wage act in 2018, then enacted a replacement covering state-funded construction in 2023 that took effect in February 2024; federally funded work sits under Davis-Bacon certified payroll rules either way.
A rejected filing that sits unworked is the same as no filing, and on a Michigan 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 Michigan
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 Michigan business hours, not queued overnight
Working Michigan hours
Michigan runs on Eastern time, 10 hours behind our floor in Rawalpindi. To be at a desk for your nine to five, the shift here runs 7pm to 3am, and 6pm to 2am once the clocks go forward. Pakistan does not observe daylight saving, so the shift moves on this side rather than yours.
One wrinkle worth naming: four counties bordering Wisconsin run on Central time. If your practice sits on that side of the line, say so on the call and the shift is set to your clock rather than the one most of the state keeps.
That is the part that decides whether follow-up happens at all: a payer’s phone lines are open on Michigan hours and nobody else’s.
What it costs in Michigan
$1,600
Per seat, per month, in US dollars — $19,200 a year for one full-time person, forty hours a week, on Michigan hours. No annual contract, no percentage of collections, no setup fee and no software to buy. Seat prices across all roles in Michigan run $1,500 to $2,500; 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 Michigan
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 Michigan contractors?
Yes. Michigan accounts are worked during Michigan office hours rather than queued overnight, because a payer's phone lines are open then and at no other time.
What is different about Michigan?
Michigan repealed its prevailing wage act in 2018, then enacted a replacement covering state-funded construction in 2023 that took effect in February 2024; federally funded work sits under Davis-Bacon certified payroll rules either way.
How much does certified payroll cost in Michigan?
$1,600 per seat per month — $19,200 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 Michigan queue?
Michigan is on Eastern time, 10 hours behind Rawalpindi. The shift here runs 7pm to 3am so your seat is at a desk for your full working day, shifting to 6pm to 2am while daylight saving is in force — Pakistan does not observe it, so the change happens on our side.
Do you file certified payroll for Michigan 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 Michigan 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