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Prevailing Wage Determination Program

The Davis-Bacon Act requires employers on most federal construction contracts to pay workers not less than the local wage and benefits that prevail for each job classification. The program gathers data and determines prevailing wage and benefit rates for classifications by locality and type of construction.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • Despite recent process changes there remains significant room for improvement in program design, especially regarding the collection and evaluation of the data used to determine prevailing wage rates.
  • The program lacks adequate, ambitious performance measures that focus on outcomes and meaningfully reflect the purpose of the program.
  • The program lacks procedures to measure and achieve efficiencies and cost effectiveness in program execution.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Conducting partnership discussions with interested parties to foster stakeholder participation in the Davis-Bacon Act wage survey program.
  • Modifying wage survey and outreach strategies to improve data collection processes.
  • Improving program management by establishing a new-hire and refresher training program for Wage Analyst, Wage Specialists, and Construction Industry Research and Policy Center staff.

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