HCM TradeSeal expands WageFinder with 1.8 million wage records and free searches

HCM TradeSeal updated its WageFinder prevailing wage platform with unlimited free searches, a new API, and more than 1.8 million wage records across federal, state, and local sources. The upgrade is designed to help contractors, payroll teams, compliance staff and software providers speed up wage research and improve compliance workflows.

Why it matters: - Prevailing wage research often requires digging through multiple government websites and long PDF files. - WageFinder now puts that data into a searchable database, which can cut manual work for contractors, payroll teams and compliance staff. - The expanded data coverage and API access also make the platform more usable for software providers and enterprise integrations.

What happened: - HCM TradeSeal announced a major update to WageFinder, its prevailing wage data platform. - The update adds unlimited free wage searches. - The platform now includes a new WageFinder API and an interactive API Explorer. - The release also adds a refreshed user experience, faster search performance and improved search tools. - HCM TradeSeal said the platform now includes more than 1.8 million wage records.

The details: - WageFinder now covers prevailing wage determinations from federal, state and local sources across multiple years. - HCM TradeSeal said the platform has tripled its wage data since launch. - Current coverage includes Federal Davis-Bacon wage determinations, California, Illinois, Washington, Ohio and Houston, Texas. - The search tools include typo correction, auto-complete suggestions and improved relevance. - Users can search by job classification, location or prevailing wage determination. - The API is designed for software providers, payroll companies, compliance platforms and enterprise organizations. - Users can build requests, preview results, test integrations and access structured prevailing wage data through the API tools. - Organizations can obtain an API key for expanded capabilities, higher usage limits and additional prevailing wage and fringe benefit data. - HCM TradeSeal says WageFinder serves contractors and subcontractors, payroll and HR professionals, compliance teams, certified payroll administrators, payroll service providers and software developers. - More information is available at WageFinder and WageFinder contact.

Between the lines: - The update positions WageFinder as both a research tool and a data layer that other payroll and compliance systems can plug into. - Expanding to structured data and API access suggests HCM TradeSeal is aiming for broader adoption beyond manual users. - The company is also signaling that prevailing wage coverage will keep growing, which could matter for teams operating across multiple states and local jurisdictions.

What's next: - HCM TradeSeal said future releases will add more state and municipal wage determinations. - The company also plans deeper union wage information. - HCM TradeSeal expects to introduce new integrations, including an upcoming WageIntelligence feature for payroll compliance workflows. - The company says it will continue expanding WageFinder coverage in future releases.

The bottom line: - WageFinder’s latest upgrade turns prevailing wage data into a more accessible, searchable and integration-ready product for compliance-heavy construction and payroll workflows.