How to fill out the WH-347, line by line

By Matt Kerr, who makes Count Twice in Grand Rapids · Checked 9 November 2026

The WH-347 is the U.S. Department of Labor's weekly certified payroll form for Davis-Bacon jobs. Page 1 is the payroll: one row for each worker in each trade, with hours by day, rates, fringe, gross pay, deductions and net pay. Page 2 is the Statement of Compliance, which you sign.

• The current form is dated January 2025. It carries OMB number 1235-0008, good through 31 January 2028.
• DOL gives it away free, as a PDF and as an online form that runs in your browser.
• The form itself is optional. Sending the same payroll facts every week, with a signed statement in identical wording, is not.
• It's due within 7 days after your regular payday, under 29 CFR 3.4.

If your guide mentions boxes 4(a) to 4(c), it's out of date

Plenty of WH-347 guides still describe the form before January 2025. If yours talks about boxes 4(a), 4(b) and 4(c), or an exceptions table, it's describing a form DOL no longer prints. The January 2025 form has:

• check boxes for the final payroll and for prime contractor or subcontractor,
• a box for the wage determination number,
• separate columns for each worker's entry number, last name, first name, middle initial and identifying number,
• a J or RA column for journeyworkers and registered apprentices,
• pay split three ways: 6A for the hourly rate, 6B for fringe paid to plans, and 6C for cash paid in place of fringe,
• gross pay split into 7A for this project and 7B for all work that week,
• a table on page 2 for each worker's fringe plans and hourly credit, and one for apprenticeship programs,
• six statements on page 2, each with its own box.

The header, box by box

The columns, 1A to 9

The overtime rule behind the OT row: on contracts under the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act, hours over 40 in the week are overtime. That includes hours worked on and off the site.

One row, filled in

Here's Ben C. from the Count Twice sample week, a made-up carpenter. His wage determination says $30.00 an hour plus $10.00 fringe, and he gets all of the fringe as cash. His workweek runs Sunday 1 November to Saturday 7 November 2026. He worked 10 hours Monday to Thursday and 4 hours on Friday.

That's 44 hours. He reached 40 on Thursday, so Friday's 4 hours go on the OT row.

Column 4 for his week looks like this:

How the money adds up:

• 6C is 44 hours times $10.00, or $440.00. The fringe is paid on every hour at its straight amount, overtime hours included. It isn't multiplied.
• Overtime is 1.5 times the $30.00 base rate, so $45.00. Paying 1.5 times $40.00 is fine too, but $45.00 is the least. The rules are 40 U.S.C. 3702 and 29 CFR 5.32.
• 7A is 40 hours at $30.00 ($1,200.00), plus 4 hours at $45.00 ($180.00), plus the $440.00 cash fringe. Cash in place of fringe is pay, so it counts in his gross.

Now Ana R., paid through plans instead. She worked 40 straight-time hours at $30.00, and her employer pays $10.00 an hour into her health and pension plans. Her 6B is $400.00 and her 6C is 0.00. Page 2 lists her plans, and their hourly credits add up to $10.00. That hourly credit is the plan's yearly cost spread over every hour she works that year, on all jobs, not only this one. That's DOL's annualization rule, 29 CFR 5.25.

Page 2: the Statement of Compliance

Page 2 repeats the project name and number, payroll number, business name, location and week ending date. Then it adds the name and title of the person who signs.

The six boxes

• Boxes 1, 2, 3 and 6: tick them every week. They say the payroll is complete and correct and the pay meets your wage determination. They also say your records are complete and available, each worker's trade is the work they actually did, and every worker got full weekly pay with no deductions beyond those 29 CFR part 3 allows.
• Box 4: apprentices. Tick it if anyone was paid as an apprentice this week. List each program, whether it's registered with DOL's Office of Apprenticeship (OA) or a State Apprenticeship Agency (SAA), and the trade. The form has room for three. Put more on an addendum. With no apprentices, leave it unticked and write N/A.
• Box 5: fringe. Tick it when fringe was paid. If you take a credit for plan payments, fill in the plan table for each worker: plan name, type and number, funded or unfunded, the hourly credit for each plan, and the total. There's room for six plans. If you paid all the fringe as cash, tick the box but leave the table empty, because the cash is already in 6C. An unfunded plan needs DOL's approval before you take the credit, under 29 CFR 5.28.

Signing it

The person who paid the workers, or supervised paying them, signs it, with the date, a phone number and an email address. It doesn't need a notary. A legally valid electronic signature counts. A photocopied or scanned signature doesn't.

The form warns that willfully falsifying any statement on it can lead to civil or criminal prosecution, under 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 31 U.S.C. 3729, and to being barred from federal contracts. DOL's instructions add that 18 U.S.C. 1001 carries a fine, up to 5 years in prison, or both. So whoever signs should know the numbers are right.

When and where it goes

• When: every week of work, within 7 days after the regular payday for that week (29 CFR 3.4).
• Where: to the federal agency, if it's a party to the contract. If it isn't, it goes to the applicant, sponsor or owner that keeps the records, who sends it on to the agency (29 CFR 5.5(a)(3)(ii)). The online form says to print it or save it as a PDF and send it to your contracting agency.
• How long to keep records: 3 years after all work on the prime contract is done (29 CFR 3.4(b)).
• Michigan state jobs: since 2 April 2026, certified payroll for these goes to the state's online system, within 10 days after each pay period. How Michigan's system works.

Check the math before you sign

The form asks you to sign that every worker got at least the rate and fringe on your wage determination. That's the part worth checking twice. The Count Twice sample week has four mistakes planted in it: overtime paid at the straight rate, a cash fringe $2.00 an hour short, a wage under the base rate, and too many apprentices on three days. This is what the checker shows for it.