Certified payroll services in Massachusetts, classified correctly.
Books, payroll administration, tax planning, and every return you file — for Massachusetts trade companies, under one monthly fee.
Massachusetts wants it weekly, and wants it right.
Public work in Massachusetts means a certified payroll every week to the awarding authority, with each worker in the correct classification at the correct rate for that job’s wage schedule.
The classification piece is where Massachusetts bites. The schedules are detailed, the trades are drawn narrowly, and the rate follows the work actually performed rather than a job title or how somebody was hired. Apprentice ratios matter too — an apprentice paid at apprentice rates who isn’t properly registered is a back pay problem waiting to surface.
None of this is difficult once somebody is doing it every week. It’s expensive when nobody is.
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, classification splits, apprentice ratios, and fringe calculations 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.
The year you sell is the year Massachusetts costs you most.
Massachusetts adds a surtax on top of its regular rate once personal income passes roughly a million dollars in a year.
For most contractors, most years, that’s not in play. But it isn’t your salary that trips it. It’s the one-off: selling the business, selling the yard, a settlement, an unusually good year on a large job. All of that lands on your personal return in a single tax year, and a threshold you have never come near suddenly matters a great deal.
The moves that help — how a sale is structured, whether it’s spread across years, what happens to the real estate, what the pass-through entity election does alongside it — all have to happen before the deal closes. Afterwards there is nothing anyone can do for you.
Massachusetts also added a second pass-through election this year, aimed squarely at the income above the surtax threshold and sitting on top of the election that already existed. For an owner having the year that trips the surtax, that is a decision to make deliberately and early rather than discover at filing.
If a sale, a retirement, or a big job is anywhere on your horizon, that conversation should start years ahead of it. That’s the kind of thing we’re in your books for.
Who this is for.
Owner-operated specialty trade contractors doing roughly $1.5 million to $25 million: electrical, mechanical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing, concrete, framing.
Greater Boston, the South Shore, the Merrimack Valley, out to Worcester and Springfield. If you bid public work, if your crews cross into Connecticut, Rhode Island, or New Hampshire, or if you own the buildings 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.