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Prevailing Wage Changes

By John Forester(Don't Use) | July 21, 2011

Several SAA members have inquired recently about changes made to the prevailing wage project threshold in the 2011-13 State Budget, and how these changes impact school district building projects.

You may recall that the SAA supported changing the threshold below which the state prevailing wage would not apply for school public works from the current $25,000 to $250,000.

The budget bill signed by Governor Walker on June 26th specifies school project thresholds of:

  1. $48,000 for single-trade projects, and
  2. $100,000 for multiple-trade projects.

A “single-trade project” is a project in which a single trade accounts for 85% or more of the total labor cost of the project.  A “multiple-trade project” then is a project in which no single trade accounts for 85% of the total labor cost.

If the above threshold amounts look rather “curious”, it becomes more so when you consider that the project threshold for towns and some villages was set at $234,000.  Calling this “messed up” is an understatement.  It’s yet another manifestation of a legislative session dominated by big money and an absence of SHAME!

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