Resources
I. Davis-Bacon Wage Determinations
- What is a wage determination?
- What is a General Wage Determination?
- What is a project wage determination?
- What are supersedeas wage determinations?
- What is a modification to a wage determination?
II. Obtaining Davis-Bacon Wage Determinations
- How do I subscribe to General Wage Determinations Issued Under The Davis-Bacon and Related Acts?
- Are the General Wage Determinations available electronically?
- How do I obtain a wage determination for a construction project to be performed at a location not covered by a published wage determination?
- Where can I obtain a copy of the General Wage Determination needed for a covered federal project?
III. Prevailing Wage Rates
- Is the rate on the wage determination the minimum hourly wage rate?
- Once construction has begun, are the workers- wage rates affected when the wage determination for the area in which the project is located is changed?
- Is it possible for more than one wage schedule to apply to specifications for a particular contract?
- Can apprentices, trainees, and/or helpers work on a project covered by the Davis-Bacon or related Acts (DBRA), and what wage rates must they be paid?
- What wage rates must be paid to supervisory employees (foremen, superintendents, etc.) employed on a covered project?
IV. Davis-Bacon Wage Surveys
- What are Davis-Bacon Wage Surveys?
- Who does the Department of Labor contact during the survey?
- Why should I participate?
- Do I have to receive a letter to participate in the survey?
- Does Wage and Hour use data collected during the survey process to target enforcement activity?
- If I do not work on federally funded construction projects, should I participate in the survey process?
- Is my response limited to the projects identified on the forms I received with my notification letter?
- Is WHD only collecting data on federally funded construction projects?
- How are prevailing wage rates calculated?
- I am the owner of the construction project. How can I participate in the Davis-Bacon wage survey?
- I am a prime/general contractor and I subcontract for all of the project work. How can I participate in the Davis-Bacon wage survey?
- In order to submit wage data for a survey, must the underlying work have been performed within the survey time frame?
- What is a peak week?
- I have a large number of workers, can I average my wage rates?
- Do I report forepersons and/or apprentices?
- In responding to a Davis-Bacon wage survey, what should I consider as fringe benefits?
- How should wage data be reported for operating engineers on the WD-10 Form?
- How should wage data be reported for ironworkers on the WD-10 Form?
- How should wage data be reported for laborers on the WD-10 Form?
- What types of clarification and analysis are done on the data submitted?
- Does WHD verify the data submitted?
V. Appeal Process
VI. Contracting Agency Responsibilities
- How do workers on a construction site know that a project is covered by the Davis-Bacon Act?- How do they know the prevailing wage to which they are entitled?
- As the contracting officer/Federal agency representative, what is my obligation when the wage determination(s) applicable to a construction project contains multiple wage schedules (for different counties and/or types of construction)?
- The wage determination applicable to my project does not contain a class of workers which is needed to complete construction.- Can other worker classification(s) and wage rate(s) be approved for use on the project?
If your question has not been addressed sufficiently in either FAQ, please submit your DBRA related question using the DBRA FAQ Line or the Technical FAQ Line.