OR-WA carpenters fringe benefit bonds.
From $100.
A carpentry contractor signatory to a Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters collective bargaining agreement posts this bond so the fringe benefit contributions it reports reach the Oregon-Washington Carpenters-Employers Trust Fund. Premiums cost 4% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
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How much does an OR-WA carpenters fringe benefit bond cost?
4% of the bond amount, from $100. Enter your amount in the calculator for the exact price.
Three steps. One sitting.
A new signatory agreement usually comes with a start date attached, and the trust fund office wants the bond in hand before the first report. This one is built to move:
Apply online
Your company details, years in business, the bond amount your agreement or trust fund office set, an effective date, and the credit consent that authorizes a soft pull. That is the application.
Issued
Most applications approve instantly. The credit consent authorizes a soft inquiry that never affects your score, and no hard inquiry ever runs on this bond.
Send it to the trust fund office
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to send to the trust fund office that administers your plans and collects the periodic reports. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the OR-WA Carpenters fringe benefit bond actually guarantees
When a carpentry, framing, or drywall contractor signs a collective bargaining agreement with the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters (successor to the Western States Regional Council of Carpenters agreements covering Oregon and Southwest Washington), it takes on negotiated wage rates and employer contributions to the union's benefit trusts — commonly the Oregon-Washington Carpenters-Employers Health and Welfare Trust Fund, the associated pension trust, and an apprenticeship/training fund. A fringe benefit bond is the security the trust fund office can require a signatory contractor to post before it accepts reports, or when a contractor has a history of late or short payments.
The bond guarantees that the fringe benefit contributions reported each period actually reach the trust funds they are owed to. If a contractor becomes delinquent, the trust fund office can make a claim against the bond, up to the bonded sum, to recover the shortfall; the surety then seeks reimbursement from the contractor. The bond amount is not a flat statutory figure — the trust sets it under its own rules and the applicable signatory agreement, scaled to the contractor's covered payroll and expected contribution exposure.
This is a private, contractual bond, not an Oregon licensing requirement — no state agency issues it or receives it. The obligation runs from the collective bargaining agreement between the contractor and the carpenters council whose trust funds it feeds. We price the bond from a $100 minimum at 4% of the amount the trust fund office sets, and the application includes only a soft credit consent — never a hard inquiry.
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Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
Issued. Most applications approve instantly. The credit consent authorizes a soft inquiry that never affects your score, and no hard inquiry ever runs on this bond.
What sets the price
The premium is 4% of the bond amount, $100 minimum: the amount the obligee sets moves the price, not your business profile.
One soft credit pull, never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score.
Where a check runs, it decides approval; the rate is the same for everyone approved.
One application, priced on the spot.
These are the actual issuing fields. The credit consent authorizes a soft pull only — a soft inquiry that never affects your score.
Start the application →Common questions.
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Signatory status waiting on one bond.
4% of the bond amount, $100 minimum. Enter the sum your trust fund office named and send it in the same day. Free until issued.