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Prevailing wage — A prevailing wage is the median wage paid to workers in a specified locality.copePrevailing wage may include both wages and benefits. It encompasses the compensation for a worker given for performed labor..ApplicationUSAIn the Davis Bacon Act all … Wikipedia
wages — Compensation for manual labor, skilled or unskilled, paid at stated times, and measured by the day, week, month, or season. Sums paid as hire or reward to domestic or menial servants, artisans, mechanics, laborers, and other employees of like… … Ballentine's law dictionary
prevailing rate of wages — The wages received generally by those who are working at the same trade or occupation. People ex rel. Rolf v Coler, 58 App Div 347 68 NYS 1101. The average, rather than the highest or lowest, wages paid for a legal day s work in the same trade or … Ballentine's law dictionary
rate of wages — The wage scale as fixed by contract or collective bargaining. See prevailing rate of wages … Ballentine's law dictionary
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Davis–Bacon Act — Enacted by the 71st United States Congress Citations Public Law Pub.L. 71 798 Stat. ch. 411, 46 … Wikipedia
Davis-Bacon Act — The Davis Bacon Act of 1931 is a United States federal law which established the requirement for paying prevailing wages on public works projects. All federal government construction contracts, and most contracts for federally assisted… … Wikipedia
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