Prevailing wage payroll in New Jersey, filed twice, every week.
Books, payroll administration, tax planning, and every return you file — for New Jersey trade companies, under one monthly fee.
New Jersey makes you file the same payroll twice.
If you bid public work in New Jersey, you already know the Prevailing Wage Act wants a certified payroll for every pay period, filed within ten days of the pay date — weekly, on most jobs. What catches people out is that filing it once isn’t enough.
Since August 2024 you have to submit through the NJ Wage Hub online — and still send a hard copy to the public body that awarded the contract. Two filings, every pay period, for every job. Contractors who file to the Hub and stop there believe they’re compliant right up until somebody tells them they aren’t.
Then there’s the part nobody warns you about. Getting a fringe calculation wrong, or classifying a worker into the wrong trade, doesn’t just mean back pay. It can mean fines, and it can mean a stop work order on a job you’re already behind on.
One more thing changed this year. Knowingly falsifying a payroll record in New Jersey is now a crime rather than just a fine, and the law provides for referral for prosecution. That raises the stakes on paperwork somebody in your office is signing every week.
We do this every week, for every client, on every job.
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, Wage Hub 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.
New Jersey takes a bigger bite. There’s something you can do about it.
New Jersey has one of the highest state income tax rates in the country, and for a profitable trade company most of that lands on the owner’s personal return.
The state does offer a workaround. The Business Alternative Income Tax lets your company pay the state tax at the business level instead, which changes what you can deduct on the federal side. It’s elective. Nobody signs you up, and nobody tells you if you missed it.
Getting it right means the election, the estimated payments, and the credit all lining up. Getting it wrong means paying for the paperwork without the benefit. It’s exactly the kind of thing that gets missed by somebody who sees your file once a year in March.
We look at it every year, for every New Jersey client, before the deadline rather than after.
Who this is for.
Owner-operated specialty trade contractors doing roughly $1.5 million to $25 million: electrical, mechanical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing, concrete, framing.
If you run public or prevailing-wage jobs, if your crews cross into New York or Pennsylvania, or if you own the shop and the yard as well as the business — that’s our lane. We handle the buildings and the company as one tax picture, because that’s what they are.
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.