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How many days does someone have to pay me on a construction project?

Across 43 records, owner-to-GC payment deadline (days) runs from 7 (3 states) to 60 (West Virginia), and 30 is the most common — 17 of them. Every value is transcribed from the source that states it and carries the sentence it was taken from: 43 sources across 2 sites, last checked 2026-09-29, due for re-check by 2027-08-14. Every record is listed below, each linking the page its value came from.

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About this data

State-by-state comparison of the statutory deadlines that govern how quickly parties on a construction project must pay each other. Each record is one state with the owner-to-contractor payment deadline (days from invoice), contractor-to-subcontractor flow-down deadline (days from receipt of payment), retention release deadline (days from completion), late-payment interest rate (monthly or annual), whether the statute covers private projects, public projects, or both, and the statutory citation. Deadlines range from 7 days (some flow-down requirements) to 45+ days. Interest rates range from 1% to 2% per month. Answers 'how many days does an owner have to pay me in [state]', 'when must I pay my subs after I get paid', and 'what interest rate can I charge for late payment on a construction project'.

The data

StateOwner-to-GC payment deadline (days)GC-to-sub flow-down deadline (days)Late-payment interest rateProject types coveredAttorney fees recoverableStatutory citationRetention release deadline (days)
Alabama3071% per monthbothyesAla. Code §§8-29-1 to 8-29-8 (private); Ala. Code §41-16-3 (state public); Ala. Code §39-2-12 (local public)
Alaska30810.5% per yearpublicAlaska Stat. §§36.90.200–36.90.290
Arizona771.5% per monthbothyesAriz. Rev. Stat. §32-1181 et seq. (private); Ariz. Rev. Stat. §§34-221, 41-2576, 41-2577, and 28-6924 (public)
Arkansas1510% per yearpublicArk. Code §§19-4-1411 and 22-9-205
California3072% per monthbothyesCal. Civ. Code 8800; Cal. Pub. Cont. Code 10261.5, 20104.50
Colorado715% per yearpublicColo. Rev. Stat. §§24-91-101–24-91-103
Connecticut30251% per monthbothdiscretionaryConn. Gen. Stat. §§42-158i–42-158j (private); Conn. Gen. Stat. §§4a-71–4a-75 and 49-41c (public)
Delaware30155% over Federal Reserve discount rate per yearbothyesDel. Code Title 6, §§3501 et seq. and §2301 (private); Del. Code Title 29, §6516(f) (public)
Florida1430judgment interest ratebothyesFla. Stat. §§713.346(2) and 715.12; Fla. Stat. §§255.0705 et seq.
Georgia15101% per monthbothyesO.C.G.A. §§13-11-1 to 13-11-11
Hawaii101.5% per monthbothnoHaw. Rev. Stat. §§444-1 & 444-25
Illinois151510% per yearbothno815 ILCS 603/1 et seq.
Kansas30718% per year (1.5% per month)bothyesK.S.A. §§16-1801 et seq.
Kentucky301512% per year (1% per month)bothdiscretionaryKy. Rev. Stat. §371.400 et seq.30
Louisiana140.5% per day, up to 15% maximumbothyesLa. Rev. Stat. §9:2784
Maine2071% per monthbothyes10 M.R.S.A. §§ 1111 et seq.; 5 M.R.S.A. §§ 1551 et seq.30
Maryland7710% per year (judgment rate)bothdiscretionaryMd. Code, Real Property §§ 9-301 – 9-304; Md. State Fin. & Proc. §§ 15-101 – 15-108, 15-226
Massachusetts454512% per yearbothnoMass. Gen. Laws c. 149 § 29E (private); M.G.L. c. 30 §§ 39F–39K (public)
Michiganreasonable interest (capped at 7% per year by statute)publicnoMich. Comp. Laws §§ 125.1561 et seq.
Minnesota30101.5% per monthbothyesMinn. Stat. § 337.10 (private); §§ 15.71–74, 16A-1245, 471.425, 137.36, 473.142 (public)60
Mississippi30151% per monthbothnoMiss. Code §§ 87-7-3, 87-7-5 (private); §§ 31-5-25, 31-5-27 (public)
Missouri30151.5% per monthbothdiscretionaryMo. Rev. Stat. § 431.180 (private); § 8.960 (public)30
Montana771.5% per monthbothyesMont. Code Ann. §§ 28-2-2101 et seq.; §§ 17-8-241–17-8-244
Nebraska30101% per monthbothdiscretionaryNeb. Rev. Stat. §§ 45-1201 – 45-1210 (private); Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 81-2401 – 81-2408 (public)45
Nevada21104% plus prime rate or contract rate, whichever is higherbothdiscretionaryNev. Rev. Stat. §§ 624.606 – 624.630 (private); Nev. Rev. Stat. §§ 338.400 – 338.645 (public)
New Jersey3010prime rate plus 1%bothyesN.J. Stat. §§ 2A:30A-1, 2A:30A-2 (private and public); N.J. Stat. § 40A:11-16.2 (public)
New Mexico2171.5% per monthbothdiscretionaryN.M. Stat. §§ 57-28-1 – 57-28-11
New York3071% per monthbothNY Gen. Bus. Law §§756 et seq.; NY State Fin. Law §§139-f and 179-f, Gen. Mun. Law §106-b
North Carolina71% per monthbothnoN.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 22C-1 – 22C-6 (private); N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 143-134 – 143-135 (public)
Ohio1018% per year (subcontractors and suppliers)bothdiscretionaryOhio Rev. Code § 4113.61 (private); Ohio Rev. Code § 126.30 (public)
Oklahoma2810noneprivatenoOkla. Stat. Title 15, §820
Oregon1471.5% per monthbothyesOr. Rev. Stat. §701.620 et seq.
Pennsylvania20141% per monthbothyes73 P.S. §501 et seq.30
South Carolina2171% per monthbothdiscretionaryS.C. Code §29-6-10
Tennessee30301.5% per monthbothdiscretionaryTenn. Code §66-34-101 et seq.90
Texas3571.5% per monthbothyesProperty Code Chapter 28; Government Code Chapter §2251
Utah45301% per monthbothyesUtah Code §§ 13-8-5 and 58-55-603
Vermont20712% per yearbothyesVt. Stat., Title 9, §§ 4001-4009
Virginia3071% per monthpublicnoVa. Code §§ 2.2-4347 – 2.2-4356
Washington30101% per monthpublicyesWash. Rev. Code §§ 39.76.011-39.76.040 and 39.04.250
West Virginia60publicnoW. Va. Code §§ 7-5-7, 8-13-22d, and 14-3-1
Wisconsin3071% per monthpublicyesWis. Stat. §§ 16.528, 16.53(2) and 66.0135
Wyoming451.5% per monthpublicnoWyo. Stat. §§ 16-6-601-16-6-602

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Every record above links the page it was taken from and quotes the sentence that states it. These are the 43 sources this dataset was assembled from.

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