These developments create much-needed housing and jobs. Mandating prevailing wages on these projects will mean many contaminated sites will sit idle because it will be too expensive. The ...
They must also account for improvements in living standards, prevailing wages, employers’ capacity to pay, fair returns on capital, effects on employment and family income, and fair income ...
Based on that, a worker would handle about 1,040 hangers each hour. The prevailing wage in the area — which is always at least minimum wage — is divided by 1,040 to get the piece rate.
Jobs including planting trees and removing buckthorn must now be paid at prevailing wage rates established for comparable construction work when funded in whole or part by state funds.