Certified payroll services in Connecticut, every week of the job.
Books, payroll administration, tax planning, and every return you file — for Connecticut trade companies, under one monthly fee.
Weekly certified payroll, and no margin for a bad week.
Connecticut requires a certified payroll record for every week of public work, submitted monthly to the contracting agency, with the fringe portion documented properly rather than folded into an hourly number.
The trouble is rarely the first week. It’s week nine, when a foreman moves two guys onto a different classification mid-job, or a crew works four hours on a public site and the rest of the day somewhere else. Split classifications and partial days are where certified payroll goes wrong, and where it stays wrong until somebody looks.
Connecticut is also a small state that a lot of crews leave. Cross into New York or Massachusetts for a week and you’ve picked up a second set of rules — a different filing cadence, a different recipient, and in New York a separate contractor registration before you can even bid.
That’s ordinary work here, not a special project we take on reluctantly.
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. Certified payroll, split classifications, 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.
Connecticut changed the rules, and a lot of owners didn’t notice.
For years Connecticut was the only state in the country where the pass-through entity tax was mandatory. Your company paid it whether anyone thought about it or not, and the credit came through automatically.
That changed. From 2024 it became elective — meaning you now have to actively choose it every single year, in writing, or you simply don’t get it.
Nobody sent most contractors a letter about this. If your business was paying it before and nothing appears to have changed on your return, that’s worth a hard look, because for a profitable Connecticut trade company this is usually the largest single lever on the state side.
Whether it’s the right election depends on your ownership and where your income is sourced. It needs modeling, not a guess. We run it every year for every Connecticut client.
Who this is for.
Owner-operated specialty trade contractors doing roughly $1.5 million to $25 million: electrical, mechanical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing, concrete, framing.
Fairfield County to Hartford to the shoreline. If you bid public work, if your crews cross into New York or Massachusetts, or if you own the shop and the yard as well as the business — that’s our lane.
We’re in Alabama. It has never mattered.
Everything runs through a secure client portal — documents, questions, approvals, signatures. You’re not driving anywhere and you’re not paying for an office you’ll never sit in.
Your certified payroll gets filed on time whether we’re forty miles away or a thousand.
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.