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EBacon

Name: EBacon
Address: 20815 N Cave Creek Road, Phoenix, AZ, 85024, US
Telephone: +16235804900

eBacon is a financial technology software company that creates innovative financial solutions w/a focus on payroll, certified payroll & benefits.

We started as a division of TAG, but put everything under the eBacon name because its fun & we love bacon. eBacon started as a product division of TAG, a multi-year member of the Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies list, is a leading Administrative Services Organization (ASO) headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona offering comprehensive Human Resource solutions, Payroll Services, Health & Retirement Benefits, and a proprietary suite of additional services geared towards creating efficiencies and positive growth for businesses.

10/14/2026

Your payroll manager is on your bonding team. Nobody told them.

Every labor number on your WIP started as payroll data. Miscode it in March and your underwriter sees it in October.

Tomorrow, Matt Snowden of The Mahoney Group, Josh Luebker of SPM The Construction CFO, and our own Bernadette Negrete share one panel to show where that chain breaks, and what to fix first.

Show up live and you get a free copy of Josh Luebker's new book, Control: C.F.O.S. Construction Financial Operating System. The recording goes to everyone who registers. The book doesn't.

TOMORROW, Oct 15 | 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET

Register: https://na2.hubs.ly/H08fSjH0

10/08/2026

Certified payroll errors rarely stay in payroll.

They show up later. Sometimes YEARS later. Usually right after the project margin looked great.

For CPAs advising prevailing wage contractors, that's not a payroll problem. That's a cash flow problem, a liability problem, and a "can this client keep bidding public work" problem.

So we put together a 12-point certified payroll review checklist over on the CICPAC blog. A few favorites:

✅ Daily hours, not weekly totals. "About 40" is not a time record.
✅ One classification for every worker on the job is a red flag, not an efficiency.
✅ Fringe amounts that never change across different wage determinations? Impressively consistent. Also suspicious.
✅ An apprentice who isn't registered in an approved program gets paid the full rate for the work performed. Surprise.

Worst case on a federal job: withheld payments, contract termination, and a three-year debarment. Best case: you caught it on a Tuesday and it cost nothing.

The full checklist takes about 6 minutes to read. Which is less time than one resubmission. 👇
https://na2.hubs.ly/H08fTPK0

10/07/2026

Two contractors. Both do $10M a year.
One gets a $1.5M bond. The other gets $7M+.

Same size. Same revenue. The difference is how their numbers read to an underwriter.

On Thursday, Oct 15, we're hosting a free webinar, Bad Data: How to Get Payroll, Job Costing, and Bonding on the Same Page, with Matt Snowden of The Mahoney Group, Josh Luebker of SPM The Construction CFO, and our own Bernadette Negrete.

In one hour, you'll learn:
- What underwriters actually look at when they set your capacity
- Why a busy sub can look profitable on paper and still run cash to zero
- Where labor cost data breaks between the field, payroll, and your WIP

BONUS: Every live attendee gets a FREE copy of Josh's new book, Control: C.F.O.S. Construction Financial Operating System.

Thursday, Oct 15 | 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET | 60 min with live question panel

Save your seat → https://na2.hubs.ly/H08fKND0

10/02/2026

The experts have spoken, and they've gone back and forth.

In January, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Consensus Construction Forecast panel expected 2026 spending to grow 1%. In their latest update (July), they'd revised that to a 0.3% decline, with a 3% rebound expected in 2027.

So far, reality agrees. New Census Bureau data shows construction spending through August is down 3.1% from the same stretch in 2025.

AIA Chief Economist Richard Branch calls the market "increasingly K-shaped." Some sectors are booming, others are sliding.

Nobody controls which side of the K the market lands on. You do control how much margin you lose to payroll errors, compliance headaches, and overpaying for benefits.

Sources: AIA Consensus Construction Forecast, mid-year 2026 update; U.S. Census Bureau, Monthly Construction Spending, August 2026

10/01/2026

QuickBooks can spit out a certified payroll report. Whether it survives an audit is a different story.

The second you land a prevailing wage job, the real work shows up: matching classifications, getting fringes right, and hitting a weekly deadline that doesn't care how busy you are. Every. Single. Week.

Our latest Institute of eBaconology article breaks down how contractors handle certified payroll from QuickBooks without the weekly scramble, plus the fringe mistake that quietly costs you on audit day.

Good news: you don't have to break up with QuickBooks. It just needs a compliance wingman.
👉 https://na2.hubs.ly/H088DBc0

09/23/2026

Rebecca Hensley's payroll week used to start Monday, swallow Tuesday, and end whenever the reports were finally done.

Paper timecards. Manual certified payroll. Then re-keying all of it into the California DIR site, as many as 25 reports a week. The team padded bids because nobody wanted to guess wrong on prevailing wage.

Hensley's Paving runs on Construction Partner. Most payroll providers can't touch it. eBacon can.

What changed:
• Field hours come in from an app and feed straight into the reports
• Fringe benefits and apprenticeship ratios get tracked automatically, not by hand
• When her first federal Davis-Bacon job came up, our team worked through it with her line by line

The crew was fully on board in about three weeks. And the bids don't need padding anymore.

In Rebecca's words: "When I call eBacon, I get a real person, a real human being, somebody who has knowledge, somebody who's responsive, someone who genuinely wants to help. If they don't know the answer, they'll find it."

Full story: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07ZCQD0
Watch the webinar: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07ZCRn0

09/15/2026

On prevailing wage work, overtime is time and a half on the base rate. Not on the fringe.

Most contractors pay it on both anyway. Base plus fringe, all in one number, multiplied by 1.5. Nobody told them they didn't have to.

Then there's Washington, which flips it. Pay your fringe out as cash there and the state does require time and a half on the total. Same contractor, same crew, opposite answer, and the difference is only which state the job is in.

Aubrey on why so many contractors are hurting themselves without knowing it. 80 seconds below.

Full recording: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07Ql-Q0

Want to know if you're overpaying? Run your numbers here: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07QlYh0

09/11/2026

Twenty-five years ago today, ironworkers, operating engineers and laborers showed up at Ground Zero and stayed nine months.

They cut steel, cleared debris and carried people home. Many are still living with the health effects of that work.

Today we remember the 2,977 lives lost on September 11, 2001, the first responders who answered the call, and the tradespeople who worked the pile.

09/09/2026

Tomorrow. 10 AM AZ. 60 minutes.

Real math on:
- The $9/hr OT trap most contractors don't know they're paying
- The credits nobody claims (avg $8,200/EE/yr across our client base)
- Annualization — the one word quietly shrinking your fringe credit

Then Jason Knight walks our NEW FRINGE calculator live. Then you pull up the calc on your phone or computer and run YOUR own numbers at the end.

Not a demo you watch. A workshop you leave with your own dollar figure from.

Last shot to register: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07JSb60

09/03/2026

Paying fringe in cash? You might be paying overtime on it too.

Pay fringe out as cash and it becomes part of the wage. That means it lands in the number your overtime gets calculated on, at time and a half, sometimes double time.

Handled separately, fringe does not work that way. The wage goes to time and a half. The fringe stays the same flat dollar amount.

Gary's point in the clip is that once it is all treated as wage, oftentimes nobody goes back and figures that out. Now multiply that by every OT hour on every public works job you ran this year.

Cash or benefits? Gary Zimmermann and Lisa Raiche of The Construction CPA make the case in the full episode: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07CJWd0

Fringe paid into a bona fide plan stays out of your overtime math. That is the part we build: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07CJWf0.

Whether the job still made money once all of it hits the books, that is Lisa's: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07CJWC0.

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20815 N Cave Creek Road
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Website

http://www.ebacon.com/

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