Davis-Bacon wage rates by state

Federally funded construction pays at least the prevailing wage set in a Davis-Bacon wage determination. Pick a state to see base rate, fringe and total per hour for each trade, by county and construction type, with the official determination number, modification and publication date.

Verify against the official determination before bidding. These rates are formatted from the published SAM.gov wage determination. The determination in your contract documents is what applies.

States

51 states with rate tables so far. Others link to the official list while we add them.

How to read a wage determination

General decision number (for example CA20260001) identifies the determination. Each modification replaces the rates it changes, so always check you have the one named in your contract.

Construction type matters: building, heavy, highway and residential projects can have different rates in the same county. A project uses the determination for its type and county.

Base rate is the minimum hourly cash wage. Fringe is the hourly amount for benefits, paid to bona fide plans or in cash. Where a fringe is printed as a percentage (for example "3%+19.93"), we work it out against the base rate and show the printed form too.

Rate identifiers such as ELEC0011-002 are union rates; SU... rates come from a wage survey; UAVG rates are weighted union averages. Letters next to a rate refer to footnotes such as paid holidays or vacation.

Classifications we cannot read with certainty (for example diver rates quoted per day) are left out of our tables and flagged. They remain in the official document.