WHO WE REFER TO · CONSTRUCTION PAYROLL AND PREVAILING WAGE COMPLIANCE
EBACON, AND WHERE IT FITS.
QUICK ANSWER
Processes construction payroll and the certified payroll reporting that public work demands. SPM refers contractors to eBacon. This is a recommendation rather than an offer. Prevailing wage work comes with a paperwork burden that has nothing to do with building anything. Wage determinations, worker classifications, fringe handling and a weekly WH-347 per job, every week, with a withheld payment waiting at the end of any mistake.
The useful half of any referral is knowing when it's the wrong answer, so that list is on this page at the same weight as the right one. Read both before you call anybody.
Certified payroll with 187,000 pre-loaded wage determinations that auto-assign by worker classification
One click WH-347 reporting, error detection as the data goes in, and restitution tools for resolving wage underpayments
Full payroll: paycheck and tax calculation, automated tax payments, federal and state return filing, same day and next day direct deposit, W2 and 1099 filing
Fringe benefit allocation, 401k, health benefits, workers compensation and HR support
Time and attendance tracked to the job and the cost code, with general ledger integration
SERVES: CONTRACTORS AND SUBCONTRACTORS ON PREVAILING WAGE WORK, MEANING FEDERALLY AND STATE FUNDED PUBLIC JOBS.
WHY THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR
WHERE OUR SCOPE STOPS.
SPM doesn't process payroll, for anybody, at any tier. That's a scope boundary rather than a shortcoming, and it means a contractor on prevailing wage work needs somebody else for the payroll half. This is who Josh sends them to.
WHEN IT FITS
THE CASE FOR IT.
You do public or prevailing wage work and certified payroll takes up a person's week
Fringe handling is being done manually, or you aren't certain it's being done right
You want hours posting against the job and the cost code rather than a lump on a timesheet
WHEN IT DOES NOT
THE CASE AGAINST IT.
Nobody publishes this part, which is the reason it's worth reading. A vendor that fixes the wrong problem costs you the fee and the time, and leaves the real problem where it was.
All your work is private with no prevailing wage requirement, in which case you're buying compliance you don't need
Your payroll works fine and the real problem is that nobody can say what a job cost. That is a job costing problem
WHAT WE CAN VERIFY
FACTS, WITH SOURCES.
Read from eBacon's own material and from independent sources on 10 August 2026. Anything that couldn't be established is absent from this page rather than softened into a claim.
Founded 2003 by Jack Biltis and Ron Bleich, based in Phoenix, Arizona
Jack Biltis served on the June 2026 public works roundtable alongside Josh Luebker
Their site cites more than 40 accounting and general ledger integrations
Because the problem eBacon solves is a real one and SPM doesn't solve it. Josh refers contractors to eBacon when it fits, and tells them when it doesn't. Treat this page as a recommendation rather than an offer.
Processes construction payroll and the certified payroll reporting that public work demands. Prevailing wage work comes with a paperwork burden that has nothing to do with building anything. Wage determinations, worker classifications, fringe handling and a weekly WH-347 per job, every week, with a withheld payment waiting at the end of any mistake.
eBacon doesn't publish pricing, so this page doesn't quote any. Ask them directly, and ask what the all-in cost is rather than the headline number. Anybody quoting you a specific eBacon rate they read on a website is quoting something that was never published.
All your work is private with no prevailing wage requirement, in which case you're buying compliance you don't need Your payroll works fine and the real problem is that nobody can say what a job cost. That is a job costing problem
It's who Josh sends people to, and it's not an exclusive arrangement in either direction. Look at the alternatives, and use the fits and does-not-fit lists on this page as the questions to ask whoever you talk to. A referral is a starting point rather than a decision.
Josh Luebker is a master electrician turned construction CFO, president of SPM The Construction CFO and author of CONTROL: C.F.O.S. Construction Financial Operating System.
Twenty minutes on your numbers. Sometimes the answer is a vendor and sometimes it's that the money is already in the business and nobody can see it. Josh will tell you which.
You don't hire a CFO because it's safe, you do it because the real risk isn't having one.
