We become the legal employer of your field crews. Weekly W-2 payroll, workers compensation by trade classification, certified payroll for public work, and multi state deployment across all 50 US states. Built for contractors and trade staffing firms, not for remote desk workers.
BOOK A CONSULTATIONMost Employer of Record providers were built to place a software engineer at a desk. The employment problem they solve is a tax registration and a benefits enrollment. Nothing about that model survives contact with a jobsite.
Construction crews form and dissolve with the work. They cross state lines mid project. They carry workers compensation classification codes that swing premiums by multiples. They trigger certified payroll on public jobs, USL&H the moment the work touches a dock, and federal cybersecurity requirements on defense sites. That is a different discipline, and it is the one Revelation was built around.
Revelation is headquartered in Mobile, Alabama, with offices in Houston and Pascagoula. We are physically in the markets where this work happens, and our insurance portfolio is underwritten for the environments a jobsite actually puts people in.
You decide who works, on which project, under whose supervision. Revelation becomes the legal employer and absorbs everything behind that decision.
These are the obligations that separate field employment from desk employment. A single crew can trigger several of them in the same week.
Paying trades as independent contractors looks cheaper until a Department of Labor audit, an injury without coverage in force, or a state unemployment claim triggers reclassification. Back taxes, penalties, interest and uncovered claims all arrive together. General contractors increasingly carry liability for misclassified labour down the chain, which is why more of them now demand proof of W-2 employment from every workforce supplier on site. On an EOR, every worker is a W-2 employee with taxes withheld and comp in force.
Federally funded projects require prevailing wages set by trade and locality, documented through certified payroll reporting, and many state and local public projects carry parallel requirements. For a contractor without the administrative infrastructure, that paperwork is reason enough to skip the bid. On an EOR platform the reporting is an output of the payroll run rather than a separate department, and public work becomes biddable.
Workers compensation premium in construction is driven by trade classification code and by your experience modification rate. Misclassified codes create both audit exposure and overpayment, and a single bad claim year raises your cost of labour for three. Revelation classifies by trade, manages claims to closure and runs return to work programs to protect the modification rate. See risk and insurance →
The moment construction work touches a dock, a terminal, a shipyard or navigable water, state workers compensation stops being sufficient. Longshore and Harbor Workers coverage is federally required, and Maritime Employers Liability sits behind it. Port and marine terminal construction routinely crosses this line without the contractor realizing it. Revelation carries both. Read the USL&H guide →
Construction on defense installations, naval yards and contractor facilities pulls the workforce partner into the federal cybersecurity requirement, not just the prime. If your EOR holds employee data connected to a controlled contract, its certification status becomes your problem during an audit. Revelation is CMMC certified. What CMMC requires →
Alabama imposes a separate fee on construction employers, administered through the Department of Revenue, that sits outside standard payroll tax. Contractors running crews on projects both inside and outside Alabama during the same quarter must allocate covered wages accordingly. We track and administer it as part of the payroll run rather than leaving it to your bookkeeper to discover.
Software led EOR platforms are good at what they were built for: onboarding a knowledge worker in a new jurisdiction. The gap is that a jobsite asks for things their model does not contain.
| Construction Requirement | Global Hiring Platform | Revelation |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly Pay Cycle | Monthly or Semi Monthly | Weekly, Standard |
| Certified Payroll and Prevailing Wage | Not Offered | Included |
| USL&H and Maritime Coverage | Not Available | USL&H + MEL |
| Trade Comp Classification | Office Class Codes | By Trade, EMR Managed |
| Jobsite Safety and OSHA Programs | Not in Scope | JHA, OSHA, Incident |
| Umbrella Liability for GC Contracts | $1M to $2M | $5M |
| Support Model | Ticket Queue | Named Contacts |
Comparison reflects the standard published service scope of global remote hiring platforms. Individual providers vary, and we recommend confirming coverage and pay cycle directly with any provider you evaluate.
Commercial, industrial, infrastructure and marine construction. Roofing is the one trade we do not employ, due to its risk profile and coverage requirements.
You own the client relationship and the invoicing. Revelation runs as your back office employment engine: onboarding, weekly payroll, workers compensation, certified payroll, benefits and HR, under white labelled documentation carrying your branding. Built for established trade staffing firms that need compliant employment infrastructure behind relationships they already hold.
Revelation operates as a full employment partner: contracts, terms, certificates of insurance, client billing and accounts receivable, with consultative support on safety, pricing and contract structure. Built for growing firms that need the full operational stack and want the receivable risk carried for them.
“We believe great partnerships build great businesses, and every relationship we enter is one we invest in for the long term.”
Clarissa Hamilton, PresidentThe EOR becomes the legal employer of your field crews. It runs weekly payroll, withholds and files taxes in every state the crew works, carries workers compensation matched to trade classification, administers benefits, produces certified payroll on public jobs, and handles HR and safety compliance. You keep full operational control of who works, on which project, and under whose supervision.
Yes. Rates are applied by trade and locality, hours are documented, and the certified payroll report is generated from the same system that produces the weekly payroll, which makes public work biddable for contractors who previously avoided it.
Structurally, yes. Every worker on the platform is employed as a W-2 employee with payroll taxes withheld, workers compensation in force and overtime tracked. That removes the reclassification exposure that produces back taxes, penalties and uncovered injury claims, and it stops classification risk from flowing up the chain to the general contractor.
Once work occurs on or adjacent to navigable water, including docks, piers, terminals and shipyards, the Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act applies and state workers compensation is not sufficient on its own. Revelation carries both USL&H and Maritime Employers Liability.
Registering your own entity in a new state typically takes several weeks before the first legal paycheck can be issued. Because Revelation already operates in all 50 US states, crews can be legally employed in a new state within days, with withholding, unemployment insurance, workers compensation and reporting already in place.
Blue Cross Blue Shield medical across a four plan structure, including a lower cost MVP plan, plus dental, vision, 401(k), life and disability. Enrollment is effective the first of the month following hire. ACA administration and reporting are handled as part of the service.
No. A staffing agency finds and supplies workers. An Employer of Record employs workers you have already identified and carries the payroll, tax, insurance and compliance obligations that come with employing them. Revelation is an EOR and is often engaged alongside a contractor's existing recruiting function or staffing partner.
Tell us the trades, the states and the project profile. We will walk you through what moves onto us and how fast the crew can be on site.
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With over 30 years of experience and more than half a billion dollars in payroll funded, Revelation Workforce Solutions is a trusted Employer of Record partner built on relationships, not just technology. We deliver fully compliant EOR services, including payroll administration, tax compliance, HR management, benefits, risk mitigation, and workforce technology across all 50 U.S. states. What truly sets us apart is our people providing a hands-on, personal approach that protects your brand, supports your employees, and keeps your business compliant at every level.
