DueVault · Public Payment Intelligence
You did the work.
Did you get everything you were due?
Nearly every state requires a prime contractor to pay its subcontractors within days of being paid by a public agency — and to pay interest when it doesn’t. Almost nobody collects it, because there is no straightforward way to work out what it comes to. This does that, free, with the statute cited.
Why only two states
Texas and California are live because their statutes have been read in the original — Tex. Gov’t Code §§ 2251.022, 2251.025 and Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 7108.5. A further 35 jurisdictions are researched and held back, because the only source for them so far is a third-party summary that cites almost no statutes. 14 more have not been researched at all.
A calculator that is confidently wrong about an interest rate is worse than no calculator. States go live when someone has read the statute, not before.
Live jurisdictions
- California prompt payment interest → · 7 calendar days · Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 7108.5
- Texas prompt payment interest → · 10 calendar days · Tex. Gov’t Code §§ 2251.022, 2251.025
What this is not
DueVault is not a law firm and this is not legal advice. The calculator performs arithmetic on dates and amounts you supply against a published statute. It does not determine that anyone owes you money — that turns on whether your invoice was proper, whether payment was withheld for cause, what your subcontract says, and whether any notice deadline applies. Covers public construction only; private work runs under different statutes.