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June 2, 2026 Release Notes

· 5 min read
Marcus Deans
Marcus Deans
Software Engineer

New York joins Illinois on the prevailing-wage penalties page this release, and a new first-versus-subsequent-violation toggle lets you assess Illinois penalties at either rate. Multi-year jobs and projects can now total their exposure across every work year at once, a new Project Time tab rolls up hours across all the jobs in a project, and custom wage-determination rates can be changed or ended on a future date.

⚖️ New York prevailing-wage penalties, plus a first/subsequent-violation toggle​

New York joins Illinois as a supported civil-penalty jurisdiction. Any job or project with New York prevailing-wage work now shows a dedicated New York Prevailing Wage Penalties section on the Penalties page, citing NY Labor Law § 220(8) and calculating the NYSDOL civil penalty at up to 25% of the outstanding wages plus interest. Jobs and projects that span more than one state get a separate penalty section per state, so Illinois and New York exposure sit side by side.

The Penalties page for a New York prevailing-wage job, showing the New York Prevailing Wage Penalties section with the NYSDOL civil penalty under NY Labor Law § 220(8) and a total penalty figure

Illinois penalties also pick up a Subsequent violation filter. Toggle it on and the IDOL civil penalty switches from the first-violation rate (20%) to the subsequent-violation rate (50%) under 820 ILCS 130/11, so you can see exposure at either severity. The filter only appears where it applies — states with a single statutory rate, like New York, don't show it.

The Penalties page for an Illinois prevailing-wage job with the Subsequent violation filter turned on, showing the IDOL civil penalty calculated at the elevated 50% rate under 820 ILCS 130/11

📅 See exposure across all work years at once​

Multi-year prevailing-wage jobs and projects no longer make you pick a single year to see your backpay exposure. The work-year selector now leads with an All Years option, and multi-year work defaults to it — so the financial-exposure and backpay-penalty totals add up every work year in one view. Choose a specific year from the same dropdown whenever you want to narrow back down.

A Federal Backpay Penalties section with the Work Year dropdown open and All Years selected, totaling penalty exposure across every work year at once

🗂️ A new Project Time tab​

Projects get a new Time tab that rolls up time across every job in the project. Switch between By User and By Day views, and use the week picker to step through the project's weeks. Hours are grouped by company and then broken down per worker — with the job each entry came from — alongside totals for regular, prevailing-wage, overtime, and incentive hours.

The new Project Time tab showing hours rolled up across the project's jobs for a selected week, grouped by company with per-worker rows and hours columns

⏱️ A refreshed Job Time page and a consistent pay-period selector​

For jobs whose time is imported as daily totals — rather than tracked entry-by-entry in DSPTCH — the Job Time page gets a cleaner layout: By User and By Day views, rows you can expand to drill into the day-by-day breakdown, full dates on every row, and tightened column headers (Total Hrs, PWA Hrs, 1x / 1.5x / 2x OT, and Incentive 1.5x).

The pay-period selector got standardized across the board, too. The dropdown for jumping between pay periods is now the same searchable control — with previous/next arrows and a Since Job Start option — on the Job Pay, Penalties, and Time pages.

The Job Time page with a week selector, By User and By Day view tabs, and an expandable table of worker hours by day

🛂 Schedule changes and terminations for custom wage-determination rates​

Custom prevailing-wage rates on a project's wage determination can now change on a schedule. Add a Schedule Change to have a rate take effect on a future date, or a Schedule Termination to end a rate on a set date — each rate keeps a clear timeline of its current and upcoming versions with their effective-date ranges. Job-level wage determinations show these scheduled changes too, read-only.

The Scheduled Changes view for a custom wage rate, listing the current rate period and an upcoming rate period with their effective-date ranges

📚 The API reference is now public​

Our API reference is now public. The API link in the top navigation — and everything under the support docs — no longer sits behind a login, so anyone evaluating an integration can browse the endpoints without an account. The reference covers the public v1 API (jobs, time entries, payroll, users, certifications, wage determinations, and more); an API key is still required to make real calls, and the docs themselves can't issue them.

🛠️ Fixes​

  • Apprenticeship penalties for small contractors no longer appear for contractors below the federal four-worker apprenticeship-participation exemption — they were previously showing exposure that didn't apply.
  • Project schedule date limits now reflect work nested at any depth in a project, not just its direct jobs and sub-projects, so the range you can set on the project schedule form (and the Earliest / Latest date suggestions) covers the whole hierarchy.
  • Certified-payroll earnings exports now include regional prevailing-wage obligations, matching the balance shown on the time card; previously these exports counted only the federal obligation.

Questions or feedback on anything here? We're always glad to hear from you.

The DSPTCH Team