Attachment K - WD RI20260001 01-30-2026.pdf
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This is a General Decision wage determination document (RI20260001) issued by the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, effective January 30, 2026, covering Rhode Island statewide for building, heavy, highway, and marine construction projects. The determination supersedes the previous decision RI20250001 and has undergone two modifications since initial publication on January 2, 2026.
The document establishes prevailing wage rates and fringe benefits for numerous construction trades and classifications across multiple project types. Rates vary by trade and project category, with examples including: Hazardous Material Handler ($49.91 base + $36.63 fringes), Boilermaker ($50.62 + $28.82), Carpenter ($47.88 + $30.50), Electrician ($56.11 + 44.10%), Elevator Mechanic ($64.52 + $38.435 plus paid holidays and vacation credits), Operating Engineer Groups 1-9 ($33.15-$51.30 + $29.95 fringes with boom length premiums up to $10.00), Ironworker ($43.03 + $33.53), Laborer Groups 1-5 ($29.00-$39.00 in building construction + $24.05-$26.90 fringes), Painter variants ($38.57-$57.85 + $25.80-$26.60), Plumber ($54.34 + $34.50), Roofer ($47.49 + $31.44), and Truck Driver Groups 1-10 ($31.86-$32.81 + $34.51 fringes with vacation bonuses and hazmat premiums). Additional premiums apply for hazardous work, height-related work, tunnel/shaft work, and specific equipment operations. The determination includes detailed equipment operator classifications, compressed air worker designations, and footnotes addressing paid holidays, vacation accrual, and bonuses. Executive Order requirements regarding paid sick leave (1 hour per 30 hours worked) and minimum wage ($13.30 per hour for 2025) apply to covered contracts.
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"General Decision Number: RI20260001 01/30/2026
Superseded General Decision Number: RI20250001
State: Rhode Island
Construction Types: Building, Heavy (Heavy and Marine) and Highway Counties: Rhode Island Statewide.
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS (does not include residential construction consisting of single family homes and apartments up to and including 4 stories) HEAVY, HIGHWAY AND MARINE
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
Modification Number Publication Date 0 01/02/2026 1 01/23/2026 2 01/30/2026
ASBE0006-006 09/01/2024
Rates Fringes
HAZARDOUS MATERIAL HANDLER
(Includes preparation, wetting, stripping, removal scrapping, vacuuming, bagging & disposing of all insulation materials, whether they contain asbestos or not, from mechanical systems)..............$ 49.91 36.63
ASBE0006-008 09/01/2024
Rates Fringes
Asbestos Worker/Insulator Includes application of all insulating materials, protective coverings, coatings & finishes to all types of mechanical systems.$ 49.91 36.63
BOIL0029-001 01/01/2025
Rates Fringes
BOILERMAKER......................$ 50.62 28.82
BRRI0003-001 06/01/2022
Rates Fringes
Bricklayer, Stonemason, Pointer, Caulker & Cleaner.......$ 46.86 29.14
BRRI0003-002 09/01/2022
Rates Fringes
Marble Setter, Terrazzo
Worker & Tile Setter.............$ 46.54 30.34
BRRI0003-003 09/01/2022
Rates Fringes
Marble, Tile & Terrazzo Finisher.........................$ 38.78 29.61
CARP0330-001 06/02/2025
Rates Fringes
CARPENTER (Includes Soft Floor Layer).....................$ 47.88 30.50 Diver Tender.....................$ 48.68 30.50
DIVER............................$ 60.83 30.50
Piledriver.......................$ 41.53 29.35
WELDER...........................$ 48.68 30.50
FOOTNOTES:
When not diving or tending the diver, the diver and diver tender shall receive the piledriver rate. Diver tenders shall receive $1.00 per hour above the pile driver rate when tending the diver.
Work on free-standing stacks, concrete silos & public utility electrical power houses, which are over 35 ft. in height when constructed: $.50 per hour additional.
Work on exterior concrete shear wall gang forms, 45 ft. or more above ground elevation or on setback: $.50 per hour additional.
The designated piledriver, known as the ""monkey"": $1.00 per hour additional.
CARP1121-002 04/21/2025
Rates Fringes
MILLWRIGHT.......................$ 45.72 31.50
ELEC0099-002 06/01/2025
Rates Fringes
ELECTRICIAN......................$ 56.11 44.10%
Teledata System Installer........$ 42.09 10.45%+15.31
FOOTNOTES:
Work of a hazardous nature, or where the work height is 30
ft. or more from the floor, except when working OSHA-approved lifts: 20% per hour additional.
Work in tunnels below ground level in combined sewer outfall:
20% per hour additional.
ELEV0039-001 01/01/2025
ELEVATOR MECHANIC................$ 64.52 38.435+a+b
FOOTNOTES:
a. PAID HOLIDAYS: New Years Day; Memorial Day; Independence Day; Labor Day; Veterans' Day; Thanksgiving Day; the Friday after Thanksgiving Day; and Christmas Day.
b. Employer contributes 8% basic hourly rate for 5 years or more of service of 6% basic hourly rate for 6 months to 5 years of service as vacation pay credit.
ENGI0057-001 12/01/2025
Rates Fringes
Operating Engineer: (power plants, sewer treatment plants, pumping stations, tunnels, caissons, piers, docks, bridges, wind turbines, subterranean & other marine and heavy construction work)
GROUP 1.....................$ 51.30 29.95
GROUP 2.....................$ 49.30 29.95
GROUP 3.....................$ 44.92 29.95
GROUP 4.....................$ 42.07 29.95
GROUP 5.....................$ 48.35 29.95
GROUP 6.....................$ 39.15 29.95
GROUP 7.....................$ 33.15 29.95
GROUP 8.....................$ 45.00 29.95
GROUP 9.....................$ 48.92 29.95
a. BOOM LENGTHS, INCLUDING JIBS:
150 feet and over + $ 2.00 180 feet and over + $ 3.00 210 feet and over + $ 4.00 240 feet and over + $ 5.00 270 feet and over + $ 7.00 300 feet and over + $ 8.00 350 feet and over + $ 9.00 400 feet and over + $10.00
a. PAID HOLIDAYS:
New Year's Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, July Fourth, Victory Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day. a: Any employee who works 3 days in the week in which a holiday falls shall be paid for the holiday.
a. FOOTNOTES:
Hazmat work: $2.00 per hour additional.
Tunnel/Shaft work: $5.00 per hour additional.
POWER EQUIPMENT OPERATORS CLASSIFICATIONS
GROUP 1: Cranes, lighters, boom trucks and derricks
GROUP 2: Digging machine, Ross Carrier, locomotive, hoist, elevator, bidwell-type machine, shot & water blasting machine, paver, spreader, graders, front end loader (3 yds.
and over), vibratory hammer & vacuum truck, roadheaders, forklifts, economobile type equipment, tunnel boring machines, concrete pump and on site concrete plants.
GROUP 3: Oilers on cranes.
GROUP 4: Oiler on crawler backhoe.
GROUP 5: Bulldozer, bobcats, skid steer loader, tractor, scraper, combination loader backhoe, roller, front end loader (less than 3 yds.), street and mobile-powered sweeper (3-yd. capacity), 8-ft. sweeper minimum 65 HP).
GROUP 6: Well-point installation crew.
GROUP 7: Utility Engineers and Signal Persons
GROUP 8: Heater, concrete mixer, stone crusher, welding machine, generator and light plant, gas and electric driven pump and air compressor.
GROUP 9: Boat & tug operator.
ENGI0057-003 12/01/2025
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
Rates Fringes
Power Equipment Operator
GROUP 1....................$ 50.57 29.95
GROUP 2....................$ 48.57 29.95
GROUP 3....................$ 48.35 29.95
GROUP 4....................$ 44.35 29.95
GROUP 5....................$ 41.50 29.95
GROUP 6....................$ 47.65 29.95
GROUP 7....................$ 47.22 29.95
GROUP 8....................$ 44.54 29.95
a.BOOM LENTHS, INCLUDING JIBS:
150 ft. and over: + $ 2.00 180 ft. and over: + $ 3.00 210 ft. and over: + $ 4.00 240 ft. and over: + $ 5.00 270 ft. and over: + $ 7.00 300 ft. and over: + $ 8.00 350 ft. and over: + $ 9.00 400 ft. and over: + $10.00
a. PAID HOLIDAYS: New Year's Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, July Fourth, Victory Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day & Christmas Day. a: Any employee who works 3 days in the week in which a holiday falls shall be paid for the holiday.
a. FOOTNOTE: Hazmat work: $2.00 per hour additional.
Tunnel/Shaft work: $5.00 per hour additional.
POWER EQUIPMENT OPERATORS CLASSIFICATIONS
GROUP 1: Cranes, lighters, boom trucks and derricks.
GROUP 2: Digging machine, Ross carrier, locomotive, hoist, elevator, bidwell-type machine, shot & water blasting machine, paver, spreader, front end loader (3 yds. and over), vibratory hammer and vacuum truck
GROUP 3: Telehandler equipment, forklift, concrete pump & on-site concrete plant
GROUP 4: Fireman & oiler on cranes
GROUP 5: Oiler on crawler backhoe
GROUP 6: Bulldozer,skid steer loaders,bobcats, tractor, grader, scraper,combination loader backhoe, roller, front end loader (less than 3 yds.), street and mobile powered sweeper (3 yds. capacity), 8-ft. sweeper (minimum 65 hp)
GROUP 7: Well point installation crew
GROUP 8: Heater, concrete mixer, stone crusher, welding machine, generator for light plant, gas and electric driven pump & air compressor
ENGI0057-005 12/01/2025
Rates Fringes
Power Equipment Operator (highway construction projects; water and sewerline projects which are incidental to highway construction projects; and bridge projects that do not span water)
GROUP 1.....................$ 46.45 29.95
GROUP 2.....................$ 44.45 29.95
GROUP 3.....................$ 39.15 29.95
GROUP 4.....................$ 25.75 29.95
GROUP 5.....................$ 33.15 29.95
GROUP 6.....................$ 39.73 29.95
GROUP 7.....................$ 43.43 29.95
GROUP 8.....................$ 38.70 29.95
a. FOOTNOTE: a. Any employee who works three days in the week in which a holiday falls shall be paid for the holiday.
b. PAID HOLIDAYS: New Year's Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, July Fourth, Victory Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day & Christmas Day.
POWER EQUIPMENT OPERATOR CLASSIFICATIONS
GROUP 1: Cranes, pile drivers, lighters, boom trucks, hoists, derricks
GROUP 2: Digging machines, excavators, locomotives, John Henry's, directional drilling machines, cold planers, reclaimers, pavers, spreaders, graders, front-end loaders (3yds & over), vacuum truck, drill/boring machine operators, vermeer saw, water blaster, hydraulic-demolition robot, Ross Carriers, concrete pump operators, asphalt/material transfer machines, rotating telehandlers, SPMT type equipment
GROUP 3: Wellpoint installation and drill/boring machine assistants
GROUP 4: Utility engineers
GROUP 5: Signal persons
GROUP 6: Oilers on cranes and deckhands
GROUP 7: Combination loader / backhoes, front-end loaders (less than 3 yds.), forklift, bulldozers, scrapers, boats, rollers, skid steer loaders (regardless of attachments), street sweepers, mechanics, welders, operators in materials yards, shops and garages
GROUP 8: Gas and electric drive heaters, concrete mixers, light plants, welding machines, pumps and compressors
IRON0037-001 09/16/2025
Rates Fringes
IRONWORKER.......................$ 43.03 33.53
LABO0271-001 12/03/2023
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
Rates Fringes
LABORER
GROUP 1.....................$ 37.00 26.90
GROUP 2.....................$ 37.00 26.90
GROUP 3.....................$ 37.00 26.90
GROUP 4.....................$ 37.00 26.90
GROUP 5.....................$ 39.00 26.90
LABORERS CLASSIFICATIONS
GROUP 1: Laborer, Carpenter Tender, Mason Tender, Cement Finisher Tender, Scaffold Erector, Wrecking Laborer, Asbestos Removal [Non-Mechanical Systems]
GROUP 2: Asphalt Raker, Adzemen, Pipe Trench Bracer, Demolition Burner, Chain Saw Operator, Fence & Guard Rail Erector, Setter of Metal Forms for Roadways, Mortar Mixer, Pipelayer, Riprap & Dry Stonewall Builder, Highway Stone Spreader, Pneumatic Tool Operator, Wagon Drill Operator, Tree Trimmer, Barco-Type Jumping Tamper, Mechanical Grinder Operator
GROUP 3: Pre-Cast Floor & Roof Plank Erectors
GROUP 4: Air Track Operator, Hydraulic & Similar Self-Powered Drill, Block Paver, Rammer, Curb Setter, Powderman & Blaster
GROUP 5: Toxic Waste Remover
LABORERS CLASSIFICATIONS
GROUP 1: Laborer, Carpenter Tender, Mason Tender, Cement Finisher Tender, Scaffold Erector, Wrecking Laborer, Asbestos Removal [Non-Mechanical Systems]
GROUP 2: Asphalt Raker, Adzemen, Pipe Trench Bracer, Demolition Burner, Chain Saw Operator, Fence & Guard Rail Erector, Setter of Metal Forms for Roadways, Mortar Mixer, Pipelayer, Riprap & Dry Stonewall Builder, Highway Stone Spreader, Pneumatic Tool Operator, Wagon Drill Operator, Tree Trimmer, Barco-Type Jumping Tamper, Mechanical Grinder Operator
GROUP 3: Pre-Cast Floor & Roof Plank Erectors
GROUP 4: Air Track Operator, Hydraulic & Similar Self-Powered Drill, Block Paver, Rammer, Curb Setter, Powderman & Blaster
GROUP 5: Toxic Waste Remover
LABO0271-002 11/27/2022
HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
Rates Fringes
LABORER
COMPRESSED AIR
Group 1....................$ 55.40 24.15 Group 2....................$ 52.93 24.15 Group 3....................$ 42.45 24.15
FREE AIR
Group 1....................$ 46.00 24.15 Group 2....................$ 45.00 24.15 Group 3....................$ 42.45 24.15
LABORER
Group 1....................$ 33.05 24.05 Group 2....................$ 35.75 24.85 Group 3....................$ 36.50 24.85 Group 4....................$ 29.00 24.85 Group 5....................$ 37.50 24.85
OPEN AIR CAISSON,
UNDERPINNING WORK AND
BORING CREW
Bottom Man.................$ 41.50 24.15 Top Man & Laborer..........$ 35.60 24.15
TEST BORING
Driller....................$ 41.95 24.15 Laborer....................$ 41.95 24.15
LABORER CLASSIFICATIONS
GROUP 1: Laborer; Carpenter tender; Cement finisher tender;
Wrecking laborer; Asbestos removers [non-mechanical systems];
Plant laborer; Driller in quarries
GROUP 2: Adzeperson; Asphalt raker; Barcotype jumping tamper;
Chain saw operators; Concrete and power buggy operator;
Concrete saw operator; Demolition burner; Fence and guard rail erector; Highway stone spreader; Laser beam operator;
Mechanical grinder operator; Mason tender; Mortar mixer;
Pneumatic tool operator; Riprap and dry stonewall builder;
Scaffold erector; Setter of metal forms for roadways; Wagon drill operator; Wood chipper operator; Pipelayer; Pipe trench bracer
GROUP 3: Air track drill operator; Hydraulic and similar powered drills; Brick paver; Block paver; Rammer and curb setter; Powderperson and blaster
GROUP 4: Flagger & signaler
GROUP 5: Toxic waste remover
LABORER - COMPRESSED AIR CLASSIFICATIONS
GROUP 1: Mucking machine operator, tunnel laborer, brake person, track person, miner, grout person, lock tender, gauge tender, miner: motor person & all others in compressed air
GROUP 2: Change house attendant, powder watchperson, top person on iron
GROUP 3: Hazardous waste work within the ""HOT"" zone
LABORER - FREE AIR CLASSIFICATIONS
GROUP 1: Grout person - pumps, brake person, track person, form mover & stripper (wood & steel), shaft laborer, laborer topside, outside motorperson, miner, conveyor operator, miner welder, heading motorperson, erecting operator, mucking machine operator, nozzle person, rodperson, safety miner, shaft & tunnel, steel & rodperson, mole nipper, concrete worker, form erector (wood, steel and all accessories), cement finisher (this type of work only), top signal person, bottom person (when heading is 50' from shaft), burner, shield operator and TBM operator
GROUP 2: Change house attendant, powder watchperson
GROUP 3: Hazardous waste work within the ""HOT"" zone
LABORER CLASSIFICATIONS
GROUP 1: Laborer; Carpenter tender; Cement finisher tender;
Wrecking laborer; Asbestos removers [non-mechanical systems]; Plant laborer; Driller in quarries
GROUP 2: Adzeperson; Asphalt raker; Barcotype jumping tamper; Chain saw operators; Concrete and power buggy operator; Concrete saw operator; Demolition burner; Fence and guard rail erector; Highway stone spreader; Laser beam operator; Mechanical grinder operator; Mason tender; Mortar mixer; Pneumatic tool operator; Riprap and dry stonewall builder; Scaffold erector; Setter of metal forms for roadways; Wagon drill operator; Wood chipper operator;
Pipelayer; Pipe trench bracer
GROUP 3: Air track drill operator; Hydraulic and similar powered drills; Brick paver; Block paver; Rammer and curb setter; Powderperson and blaster
GROUP 4: Flagger & signaler
GROUP 5: Toxic waste remover
LABORER - COMPRESSED AIR CLASSIFICATIONS
GROUP 1: Mucking machine operator, tunnel laborer, brake person, track person, miner, grout person, lock tender, gauge tender, miner: motor person & all others in compressed air
GROUP 2: Change house attendant, powder watchperson, top person on iron
GROUP 3: Hazardous waste work within the ""HOT"" zone
LABORER - FREE AIR CLASSIFICATIONS
GROUP 1: Grout person - pumps, brake person, track person, form mover & stripper (wood & steel), shaft laborer, laborer topside, outside motorperson, miner, conveyor operator, miner welder, heading motorperson, erecting operator, mucking machine operator, nozzle person, rodperson, safety miner, shaft & tunnel, steel & rodperson, mole nipper, concrete worker, form erector (wood, steel and all accessories), cement finisher (this type of work only), top signal person, bottom person (when heading is 50' from shaft), burner, shield operator and TBM operator
GROUP 2: Change house attendant, powder watchperson
GROUP 3: Hazardous waste work within the ""HOT"" zone
PAIN0011-005 06/01/2025
Rates Fringes
PAINTER
Brush and Roller............$ 39.57 26.60 Epoxy, Tanks, Towers, Swing Stage & Structural Steel.......................$ 41.57 26.60 Spray, Sand & Water Blasting....................$ 42.57 26.60 Taper.......................$ 38.82 25.80 Wall Coverer................$ 38.57 25.80
PAIN0011-006 06/01/2024
Rates Fringes
GLAZIER..........................$ 41.63 26.15
FOOTNOTES:
SWING STAGE: $1.00 per hour additional.
PAID HOLIDAYS: Labor Day & Christmas Day.
PAIN0011-011 06/01/2024
Painter (Bridge Work)...........$ 57.85 26.40
PAIN0035-008 06/01/2011
Rates Fringes
Sign Painter.....................$ 24.79 13.72
PLAS0040-001 01/01/2025
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
Rates Fringes
CEMENT MASON/CONCRETE FINISHER...$ 44.75 29.10
FOOTNOTE: Cement Mason: Work on free swinging scaffolds under 3 planks width and which is 20 or more feet above ground and any offset structure: $.30 per hour additional.
PLAS0040-002 01/01/2025
HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
Rates Fringes
CEMENT MASON/CONCRETE FINISHER...$ 44.75 29.10
PLAS0040-003 01/01/2025
Rates Fringes
PLASTERER........................$ 45.52 29.43
PLUM0051-002 08/25/2025
Rates Fringes
Plumbers and Pipefitters.........$ 54.34 34.50
* ROOF0033-004 12/01/2025
Rates Fringes
ROOFER...........................$ 47.49 31.44
SFRI0669-001 04/01/2025
Rates Fringes
SPRINKLER FITTER.................$ 53.76 33.44
SHEE0017-002 06/01/2025
Rates Fringes
Sheet Metal Worker...............$ 44.42 41.94
TEAM0251-001 05/01/2025
HEAVY AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
TRUCK DRIVER
GROUP 1....................$ 31.86 34.51+a+b GROUP 2....................$ 32.01 34.51+a+b GROUP 3....................$ 32.06 34.51+a+b GROUP 4....................$ 32.11 34.51+a+b GROUP 5....................$ 32.21 34.51+a+b GROUP 6....................$ 32.61 34.51+a+b GROUP 7....................$ 32.81 34.51+a+b GROUP 8....................$ 32.31 34.51+a+b GROUP 9....................$ 32.56 34.51+a+b GROUP 10....................$ 32.36 34.51+a+b
FOOTNOTES:
A. Paid Holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, plus Presidents' Day, Columbus Day, Veteran's Day & V-J Day, providing the employee has worked at least one day in the calendar week in which the holiday falls.
B. Employee who has been on the payroll for 1 year or more but less than 5 years and has worked 150 Days during the last year of employment shall receive 1 week's paid vacation; 5 to 10 years - 2 weeks' paid vacation; 10 or more years - 3 week's paid vacation.
C. Employees on the seniority list shall be paid a one hundred dollar ($100.00) bonus for every four hundred (400) hours worked, up to a maximum of five hundred dollars ($500.00)
All drivers working on a defined hazard material job site shall be paid a premium of $2.00 per hour over applicable rate.
TRUCK DRIVER CLASSIFICATIONS
GROUP 1: Pick-up trucks, station wagons, & panel trucks
GROUP 2: Two-axle on low beds
GROUP 3: Two-axle dump truck
GROUP 4: Three-axle dump truck
GROUP 5: Four- and five-axle equipment
GROUP 6: Low-bed or boom trailer.
GROUP 7: Trailers when used on a double hook up (pulling 2 trailers)
GROUP 8: Special earth-moving equipment, under 35 tons
GROUP 9: Special earth-moving equipment, 35 tons or over
GROUP 10: Tractor trailer
WELDERS - Receive rate prescribed for craft performing operation to which welding is incidental.
Note: Executive Order (EO) 13706, Establishing Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors applies to all contracts subject to the Davis-Bacon Act for which the contract is awarded (and any solicitation was issued) on or after January 1, 2017. If this contract is covered by the EO, the contractor must provide employees with 1 hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours they work, up to 56 hours of paid sick leave each year.
Employees must be permitted to use paid sick leave for their own illness, injury or other health-related needs, including preventive care; to assist a family member (or person who is like family to the employee) who is ill, injured, or has other health-related needs, including preventive care; or for reasons resulting from, or to assist a family member (or person who is like family to the employee) who is a victim of, domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Additional information on contractor requirements and worker protections under the EO is available at https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/government-contracts.
Note: Executive Order 13658 generally applies to contracts subject to the Davis-Bacon Act that were awarded on or between January 1, 2015 and January 29, 2022, and that have not been renewed or extended on or after January 30, 2022. Executive Order 13658 does not apply to contracts subject only to the Davis-Bacon Related Acts regardless of when they were awarded.
If a contract is subject to Executive Order 13658, the contractor must pay all covered workers at least $13.30 per hour (or the applicable wage rate listed on this wage determination, if it is higher) for all hours spent performing on the contract in 2025. The applicable Executive Order minimum wage rate will be adjusted annually. Additional information on contractor requirements and worker protections under Executive Order 13658 is available at www.dol.gov/whd/govcontracts.
Unlisted classifications needed for work not included within the scope of the classifications listed may be added after award only as provided in the labor standards contract clauses (29CFR 5.5 (a) (1) (iii)).
The body of each wage determination lists the classifications and wage rates that have been found to be prevailing for the type(s) of construction and geographic area covered by the wage determination. The classifications are listed in alphabetical order under rate identifiers indicating whether the particular rate is a union rate (current union negotiated rate), a survey rate, a weighted union average rate, a state adopted rate, or a supplemental classification rate.
Union Rate Identifiers
A four-letter identifier beginning with characters other than ""SU"", ""UAVG"", ?SA?, or ?SC? denotes that a union rate was prevailing for that classification in the survey. Example:
PLUM0198-005 07/01/2024. PLUM is an identifier of the union whose collectively bargained rate prevailed in the survey for this classification, which in this example would be Plumbers.
0198 indicates the local union number or district council number where applicable, i.e., Plumbers Local 0198. The next number, 005 in the example, is an internal number used in processing the wage determination. The date, 07/01/2024 in the example, is the effective date of the most current negotiated rate.
Union prevailing wage rates are updated to reflect all changes over time that are reported to WHD in the rates in the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) governing the classification.
Union Average Rate Identifiers
The UAVG identifier indicates that no single rate prevailed for those classifications, but that 100% of the data reported for the classifications reflected union rates. EXAMPLE:
UAVG-OH-0010 01/01/2024. UAVG indicates that the rate is a weighted union average rate. OH indicates the State of Ohio.
The next number, 0010 in the example, is an internal number used in producing the wage determination. The date, 01/01/2024 in the example, indicates the date the wage determination was updated to reflect the most current union average rate.
A UAVG rate will be updated once a year, usually in January, to reflect a weighted average of the current rates in the collective bargaining agreements on which the rate is based.
Survey Rate Identifiers
The ""SU"" identifier indicates that either a single non-union rate prevailed (as defined in 29 CFR 1.2) for this classification in the survey or that the rate was derived by computing a weighted average rate based on all the rates reported in the survey for that classification. As a weighted average rate includes all rates reported in the survey, it may include both union and non-union rates. Example: SUFL2022-007 6/27/2024. SU indicates the rate is a single non-union prevailing rate or a weighted average of survey data for that classification. FL indicates the State of Florida. 2022 is the year of the survey on which these classifications and rates are based. The next number, 007 in the example, is an internal number used in producing the wage determination. The date, 6/27/2024 in the example, indicates the survey completion date for the classifications and rates under that identifier.
?SU? wage rates typically remain in effect until a new survey is conducted. However, the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has the discretion to update such rates under 29 CFR 1.6(c)(1).
State Adopted Rate Identifiers
The ""SA"" identifier indicates that the classifications and prevailing wage rates set by a state (or local) government were adopted under 29 C.F.R 1.3(g)-(h). Example: SAME2023-007 01/03/2024. SA reflects that the rates are state adopted. ME refers to the State of Maine. 2023 is the year during which the state completed the survey on which the listed classifications and rates are based. The next number, 007 in the example, is an internal number used in producing the wage determination.
The date, 01/03/2024 in the example, reflects the date on which the classifications and rates under the ?SA? identifier took effect under state law in the state from which the rates were adopted.
WAGE DETERMINATION APPEALS PROCESS
1) Has there been an initial decision in the matter? This can be:
a) a survey underlying a wage determination
b) an existing published wage determination
c) an initial WHD letter setting forth a position on a wage determination matter
d) an initial conformance (additional classification and rate) determination
On survey related matters, initial contact, including requests for summaries of surveys, should be directed to the WHD Branch of Wage Surveys. Requests can be submitted via email to davisbaconinfo@dol.gov or by mail to:
Branch of Wage Surveys Wage and Hour Division U.S. Department of Labor 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20210
Regarding any other wage determination matter such as conformance decisions, requests for initial decisions should be directed to the WHD Branch of Construction Wage Determinations.
Requests can be submitted via email to BCWD-Office@dol.gov or by mail to:
Branch of Construction Wage Determinations Wage and Hour Division U.S. Department of Labor 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20210
2) If an initial decision has been issued, then any interested party (those affected by the action) that disagrees with the decision can request review and reconsideration from the Wage and Hour Administrator (See 29 CFR Part 1.8 and 29 CFR Part 7).
Requests for review and reconsideration can be submitted via email to dba.reconsideration@dol.gov or by mail to:
Wage and Hour Administrator U.S. Department of Labor 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20210
The request should be accompanied by a full statement of the interested party's position and any information (wage payment data, project description, area practice material, etc.) that the requestor considers relevant to the issue.
3) If the decision of the Administrator is not favorable, an interested party may appeal directly to the Administrative Review Board (formerly the Wage Appeals Board). Write to:
Administrative Review Board U.S. Department of Labor 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20210.
END OF GENERAL DECISION"
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