Certified payroll in Huntsville, Alabama — and an hour up the road.
Books, payroll administration, tax planning, and every return you file — for Alabama trade companies, under one monthly fee. We’re here too.
Federal jobs, federal rules.
Alabama doesn’t have its own prevailing wage law. That doesn’t get you out of anything, because the work that matters here is federal.
If you’re on a job at Redstone, on a federal building, or on anything carrying federal highway or infrastructure money, Davis-Bacon applies. That means weekly certified payroll on the WH-347, correct classifications, fringe benefits stated separately — paid into a bona fide plan or as cash in lieu, not buried in one hourly figure, and a signed statement of compliance every week the job runs.
North Alabama has more of this work than almost anywhere its size. It also has a lot of contractors who grew up on private work and picked up their first federal job without anyone explaining what came with it.
We do this every week. And we’re an hour up the road.
What one fee covers.
Your books, current
We keep them, or we watch the ones you keep. Either way somebody is in your numbers every month, which is the only way any of the rest of this works.
Payroll, administered
Inside your own payroll account. You stay the employer, your money stays yours. Davis-Bacon certified payroll, WH-347 filing, fringe calculations, and multi-state crews are ordinary work here.
Planning and every return
Moves made during the year, not reported after it. Then the company return and your personal return, same fee.
Certified and prevailing-wage payroll is priced on its own line, per active project.
Low state tax means the federal side is where the money is.
Alabama’s state rate is low, so the savings that matter to a contractor here are federal ones. That changes what we spend our time on.
Research credits. Contractors assume this is for laboratories. It isn’t. If your people solve engineering problems — designing a system to fit a building that won’t take the standard approach, developing a method to hit a spec — that work can qualify. Mechanical, electrical, and specialty contractors on federal and defense jobs do this constantly and almost never claim it. There is a catch worth knowing before you get your hopes up: work paid for under somebody else’s contract can be excluded unless you keep rights in what you develop and carry the risk if it does not work. On federal jobs that distinction decides the claim.
Cost segregation. If you own the shop, the yard, or a building the business works out of, breaking it into its components changes how quickly you write it off. On a building worth real money this is usually the largest single item available.
Owner compensation. Set too low and it’s a problem. Set too high and you’re paying employment taxes you didn’t need to. It’s a number that should be revisited every year and almost never is.
Equipment timing and retirement. Both ordinary, both worth money, both dependent on being decided before December rather than discovered in April.
Who this is for.
Owner-operated specialty trade contractors doing roughly $1.5 million to $25 million: electrical, mechanical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing, concrete, framing.
Huntsville, Birmingham, Mobile, the Shoals. If you work on federal or defense jobs, if your crews cross into Tennessee, Georgia, or Mississippi, or if you own the buildings alongside the business — that’s our lane.
Local, and virtual anyway.
We’re an Alabama firm and we work with contractors across the country. Everything runs through a secure client portal — documents, questions, approvals, signatures.
If you’d rather shake a hand first, that can be arranged. After that, most clients find they’d rather not drive anywhere.
Let’s find out what you’re carrying.
Thirty minutes, no charge, no pitch deck. Tell us what you build and how your books are kept, and we’ll tell you straight whether we can help.