U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS ADMINISTRATION
WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION
WASHINGTON D.C. 20210 
FEB 18 1993
MEMORANDUM NO. 169
MEMORANDUM FOR ALL CONTRACTING AGENCIES OF THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
FROM: CHARLES E. PUGH
Acting Administrator, Wage and Hour Division
SUBJECT: 1993 Edition of General Wage Determinations
Issued Under The Davis-Bacon And Related Acts
The 1993 edition of General Wace Determinations Issued Under
The Davis-Bacon And Related Acts (GWD) will be issued on
February 19, 1993. Due to shipping problems, we anticipate that
some subscribers will be affected by delays in the mailing of
this document and of Transmittal No. 1, also dated February 19,
1993, which contains the first set of modifications to the 1993
edition of the GWD. Therefore, legal notice of the publication
of this document and of modifications contained in Transmittal
No. 1 will appear in the Federal Register dated February 26,
1993.
If you receive your copy of the basic volume (s) of the 1993
edition a to February 26, remember that the effective date
of a GWD is the date of publication (as noticed in the Federal
Register), or the date of receipt, whichever occurs first. (See
Regulations, 29 CFR Part 1, section 1. 6 (C)(3)(v)).
Please also note that modifications to certain 1993 wage
determinations have already been issued in Transmittal Nos. 103
and 104 of the 1991 edition. These modifications were issued
after the 1993 edition basic volumes had already gone to print.
They are also dated February 19, 1993, as they modify wage
determinations contained in the 1993 edition of the GWD.
However, they were noticed in the Federal Register on February 5
and February 12. They also took effect on the date of notice in
the Federal Register or upon date of receipt, whichever was
earlier. These 1993 edition modifications issued prior to
February 26, as a part of the 1991 edition, will also be reissued
in Transmittal No. 1 to the 1993 edition, the first update
transmittal to the new basic volumes of the 1993 edition.
This publication contains over 800 general wage determinations.
All of the general wage determinations in this edition of the GWD
were prepared utilizing a new computerized Davis-Bacon Wage
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The WDGS system is designed to enhance the capacity of the Wage
and Hour Division to produce and modify Davis-Bacon general wage
determinations in a timely manner. This is a matter of the
utmost concern to workers and contractors subject to the
prevailing wage protection of the Davis-Bacon and related Acts.
The new format of the wage determinations produced by the WDGS
includes several features to assist interested parties in under-
standing the bases of wage rates that have been determined to be
prevailing by the U.S. Department of Labor:
o Beginning in 1993, when new wage rates are issued as a
result of new prevailing wage surveys, the survey imple-
mentation dates will be provided.
o Where the union rate is determined to be prevailing for a
classification, the ID for the local union that bargained
the rate is listed for the relevant classification, and the
date the rate was bargained to take effect is provided.
The automated process by which the classifications and wage rates
are compiled to produce a wage determination requires general
wage determinations to be reprinted in their entirety when they
are modified. As has been done in the past, when wage determina-
tion modifications are issued, asterisks will be used to indicate
the classifications in a wage determination affected by wage rate
updates or other changes.