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Missouri Certified Payroll (Form WH-347) (2026)

Fill the U.S. Department of Labor's weekly certified payroll for a Davis-Bacon or state prevailing-wage job: hours by day split straight time and overtime, prevailing rates and fringes, deductions and net pay, with the signed Statement of Compliance on page 2 — and your state's own certified payroll rule where the project is state-funded.

Updated September 2026≈ 12 minReviewed against Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 290.210-290.340 · Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.290 · 29 C.F.R. § 5.5
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Sample first page of the Certified Payroll (Form WH-347). Your answers fill in the blanks; the clauses required in Missouri are added automatically.

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What this document covers

  • Form WH-347 header: project, contract number, wage determination, payroll number and week ending
  • Every worker with the last four digits of the SSN only — never a full social security number
  • Hours worked each day Sunday to Saturday, split straight time and overtime, totalled automatically
  • Rates, fringe credit and cash fringes, gross for this project and for all work, deductions and net pay
  • Page 2 Statement of Compliance with the six certifications, apprenticeship and fringe details, and the false-statement warning

Missouri rules that this document follows

State prevailing-wage lawYes — Missouri requires the prevailing hourly rate of wages on public works of the State and its political subdivisions above the statutory threshold.Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 290.210-290.340
Certified payroll on state projectsNot required as a routine filing to the contracting public body or the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, on inspection. The contractor keeps full and accurate records of the names, occupations and crafts of every worker, the hours worked and the actual wages paid; the records are open to inspection by the public body or the department at any reasonable time. Missouri does not require a routine weekly filing, but before final payment each contractor and subcontractor must file an affidavit of compliance with the contracting public body.Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.290
State form or systemAffidavit of compliance filed before final paymentSource: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.290
Contract threshold$75,000.Source: U.S. DOL, Wage and Hour Division, Dollar Threshold Amounts for Contract Coverage Under State Prevailing Wage Laws (Jan. 1, 2023)
Record retention1 year — Payroll records may not be destroyed or removed from the state for one year following completion of the public work.Source: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.290
Federal requirementContractors and subcontractors must submit weekly certified payrolls to the federal agency that is a party to the contract or, where the agency is not a party, to the applicant, sponsor, owner or other entity that maintains the records for transmission to the federal agency.Source: 29 C.F.R. § 5.5(a)(3)(ii)
Statement of complianceEach weekly payroll must be accompanied by a signed Statement of Compliance — page 2 of Form WH-347 or any document with identical wording — executed by the contractor, subcontractor, or the authorized officer or employee who supervises the payment of wages, and signed with an original handwritten signature or a legally valid electronic signature.Source: 29 C.F.R. § 3.3(b)
Worker identificationThe payroll submitted to the agency must not contain the worker's full social security number or home address; it shows an individual identifying number, such as the last four digits of the social security number.Source: 29 C.F.R. § 5.5(a)(3)(ii)(A); Form WH-347 instructions, column 1E
OvertimeOn covered contracts, laborers and mechanics must be paid one and one-half times the basic rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek.Source: 40 U.S.C. § 3702(a) (Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act)

Rules current as of 2026-09-14. Statutes change; verify before relying on them.

How to use this Certified Payroll (Form WH-347) in Missouri

Fill the header first: the project name and location, the contract or project number, the wage determination the rates come from, your payroll number (start at 1 and run consecutively for this project), and the week-ending date. Tick prime contractor or subcontractor. If this is the last payroll on the job, mark it as final — the agency uses that to close the file.

Then enter each worker: name, the identifying number, which is the last four digits of the social security number and nothing more, the work classification exactly as it appears in the wage determination, and hours day by day from Sunday to Saturday, split between straight time and overtime. Enter the hourly rate, any fringe benefit credit for contributions to a plan, fund or program, and any fringes paid in cash. Gross for this project is computed from the hours and rates; enter gross for all work only when the worker also worked elsewhere that week. Deductions are itemised — FICA, federal withholding, state withholding and anything else, which must be described — and net pay is what the worker actually received for the week.

Page 2 is the Statement of Compliance and it is what makes the payroll 'certified'. Certifications 1, 2, 3 and 6 are always made; certification 4 covers apprentices registered with the Office of Apprenticeship or a State Apprenticeship Agency; certification 5 covers fringe benefits paid to approved plans or in cash. Add exceptions and remarks where a worker's situation needs explaining. The person who signs must be the contractor, the subcontractor, or the officer or employee who supervises the payment of wages — 29 C.F.R. § 3.3(b) — and willful falsification carries the warning printed at the bottom of the page: prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 and 31 U.S.C. § 3729 and debarment.

Where the money is state or local, Missouri's own prevailing-wage law applies on top of, or instead of, Davis-Bacon: Missouri requires the prevailing hourly rate of wages on public works of the State and its political subdivisions above the statutory threshold. (Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 290.210-290.340). There is no routine state filing — the records are produced when the agency asks for them. Coverage threshold: $75,000.

Frequently asked questions

Does Missouri require certified payroll on state-funded projects?

Missouri has its own prevailing-wage law. Missouri requires the prevailing hourly rate of wages on public works of the State and its political subdivisions above the statutory threshold. (Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 290.210-290.340) A routine certified payroll filing is not required; records are produced on request.

What is Form WH-347?

It is the U.S. Department of Labor's weekly certified payroll form for Davis-Bacon and Related Acts work (OMB 1235-0008). Page 1 lists each worker's hours by day split between straight time and overtime, the rates and fringes, gross earnings for the project and for all work, deductions and net pay. Page 2 is the Statement of Compliance. Using the form is optional; filing the information weekly is not.

How is overtime calculated on a certified payroll?

Hours over 40 in the workweek are paid at one and one-half times the basic hourly rate under the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act (40 U.S.C. § 3702(a)). The cash equivalent of fringe benefits is not part of the base used for the overtime premium; fringes are paid at the straight rate for all hours, whether to a plan or in cash.

What happens if the certified payroll is wrong?

Willful falsification of any statement on the certified payroll may lead to civil or criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 and 31 U.S.C. § 3729, and to debarment from future federal and federally assisted contracts. An honest error is corrected by filing a corrected payroll for that week with a remark explaining the change.

How long do I keep the payroll records?

On federal work, payrolls and basic records are kept during the job and for three years after all the work on the prime contract is completed (29 C.F.R. § 5.5(a)(3)(i)). In Missouri the state rule is 1 year: Payroll records may not be destroyed or removed from the state for one year following completion of the public work. (Mo. Rev. Stat. § 290.290).

Do subcontractors file their own certified payroll?

Yes. Every covered contractor and subcontractor files its own weekly payroll and Statement of Compliance for its own employees; the prime contractor is responsible for making sure the subcontractors' payrolls reach the contracting agency.

Other names

  • WH-347
  • wh 347 form
  • certified payroll form
  • davis bacon payroll
  • certified payroll report
  • weekly certified payroll
  • prevailing wage payroll
  • statement of compliance
  • payroll for contractors optional use
  • davis bacon certified payroll form

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