Prevailing wage government contract?

When ever we do a state or federal job, we get prevailing wages. Just search prevailing wage for your area. Even at this late date, you can go back and make them pay you. The deal is, your boss already got paid for the prevailing wage difference. There was one instance that a compliant was filed, and the company had to pay millions in back wages.

 

i believe one place to call/contact, would be the GSA contracting division. they may provide you with the prevailing wages for the area, not necessarily what your employer should pay you, as they have no final control over that end of it.

but then too realize, the contract your boss has (or had) may have indeed "prevailing wages", but many times a GSA contract is for one to 3 years at a time, with a lock on any such pay raises. the pay raises would come from your employer, not the GSA.

the GSA would have a cap on wages for the duration of the contract. once your employer gives out a pay raise, to meet that cap, it's done, till the next renewal time. then you get pay raises according to your employer all over again.

i worked for a contractor with the GSA account, this is how i recall it to be. your boss can give you or the others "top rate" right off the bat, but then there would be NO pay raises, as he exhausted those monies. best to "give a little" yearly, then all at once.

 

I am not sure if that is true because you didn't mention the State you worked in.
I have done many jobs as a contractor that were prevailing wage and the rules are set by the state you work in, not the federal government unless the wages are more then the state mandates, and if a contractor signs a 3 year job they should figure in the extra costs in the duration of the contract.

 

the GSA contractor i worked for, like i said, could have put us all at top rate as soon as we got hired on. however then, there just wouldn't be any pay raise during the duration of the contract, and we'd have no right to complain, as it was spelled out to us up front.

 

i have done a fair bit of prevailing wage work with gravel trailers, done jobs on a afb and lots of state jobs. for trucks is typically determined by how far off the project you travel weather it is prevailing wage or not. for example did a job on a afb were we tore out a existing runway and then re-biult it, we hauled the old runway out in chunks and piled it just outside of the base were it could be hauled off crushed and re-sold later. this was prevailing wage. when we rebiult the runway we were hauling material in from about 40 miles away this was not prevailing wage, just delivering a project to a government project.

another job last year, state highway project we were hauling fill dirt in that was dug out of a field 2 miles off the project. this was prevailing wage, hauling gravel in from 10 miles off the project was not prevailing wage. just for a couple examples. typically prevailing wage only applys to trucks if all the work is being preformed on site vrs just delivering a product to from outside.

 

Doing business with uncle sam requires you to qoute a price that you have the guts to ask. Which is why we have 700 dollar toilet seats in airplanes that cost 10 bucks in wally world.

 

Prevailing wage is prevailing wage, a contractor cannot set the wage to whatever they want and increase it as they see fit because its not in there budget
In New Jersey if a equipment operators wages are $55.00 per hour plus benefits the contractor has to pay those wages, if they don't and a employee files a complaint to the State labor board the contractor not only has to reimburse those wages they are fined.
Also they have to produce certified payroll, which will show if the contractor payed the correct wages.
State labor laws apply to federal govt work

 

look, i know how me and the others got paid on that contract...the end....

 

Well i guess you are upset with your response, just wondering if you read or was given a copy of such contract because i have done many prevailing jobs, and the last Federal job i worked at was Earl Naval Base"s demolition of 360 housing units, full rate, no freeze on wages.
You getting upset with me is kinda backwards, you should be upset with the contractor that set the wages and frozen pay, they are the ones who benefited from your hard work and pocketed the extra monies that should have been paid to you.
All i am doing is pointing out how the system works, or should work.