How a Construction Contractor Automated Prevailing Wage and Certified Payroll in ADP® with Dapt
Industry: Construction
Payroll Platform: ADP®
Payroll Complexity: Prevailing wage, Certified Payroll reporting, job costing
Running payroll shouldn’t mean losing an entire week to compliance spreadsheets.
That was the exact bottleneck facing an ADP client in the construction industry. The client had a world-class payroll system in ADP, but their team was still drowning in manual calculations, complex prevailing wage rates, and job costing headaches.
They did not need all the manual work and the headaches associated with their process — they needed to automate their complex workflows.
The Challenge
Like many contractors handling prevailing wage projects, their team was overwhelmed by manual compliance tasks:
- Time-consuming prevailing wage math across multiple pay rates, trades, and project rules every pay cycle.
- Days spent compiling Certified Payroll reports manually instead of focusing on high-value operations.
- Fragmented job costing workflows that made tracking actual labor expenses across projects a moving target.
- Disconnected admin processes that increased risk of compliance errors and late reporting.
The Cost
Valuable leadership and accounting hours were consumed by repetitive reviews to ensure quality and manual work instead of driving growth and profitability.
The Solution
By adding Dapt to their existing ADP payroll environment, they ended up with an integrated solution that transformed their workflow. The results were:
✓ Automated Prevailing Wage Calculations – Dapt applies the appropriate wage rates and business logic before pushing the data into ADP for payroll processing.
✓ Simplified Certified Payroll Reporting – Reports are automatically populated using payroll data, allowing the team to quickly download and submit them instead of manually preparing each report.
✓ Streamlined Job Costing – Dapt organizes and allocates payroll expenses to the appropriate jobs, simplifying the accounting process and improving cost visibility.
✓ Connected Payroll Workflow – Time, payroll, compliance reporting, and job costing are brought together into one streamlined process.
The Impact
- Saving days of administrative work every payroll cycle
- Eliminating repetitive prevailing wage calculations
- Dramatically reducing manual Certified Payroll report preparation
- Improving job costing accuracy and financial visibility
- Allowing the team to focus more on projects and less on paperwork
The Result
What was once a highly manual, time-consuming payroll and reporting process can now be handled through a much more efficient, automated workflow.
By leveraging solutions from ADP and Dapt, this contractor can simplify prevailing wage compliance, generate Certified Payroll reports with ease, and streamline job costing—all while continuing to use the payroll platform they already know.
Already using ADP? That doesn't mean your payroll process has to remain manual.
This is a great example of how Dapt can enhance an existing ADP environment by automating the complex processes that happen before and after payroll.
Sometimes the biggest improvement isn't replacing your existing technology. It's connecting the right solutions to make it work better.
