Wednesday, 2 January 2019

All You Must Know About Prevailing Wage

By Ruth Hill


Becoming an adult means to be more responsible not only with your actions but as well as on your choices. Anyhow, on that phase, you really have to find and suffice your physiological and safety needs. Then that means you also need to find an employment so you can get your needs like food and clothes. And of course, it needs money to purchase those things. Nothing is free nowadays and trading things for food and clothes are rare these days. When you got a job and seemed doubtful about your pay, it sometimes make you question on how prevailing wage contractors pay you.

Lots of individuals out there sometimes misused the terms, salaries and wages. Anyhow, those are still similar because those terms are in a form of monetary. Regardless of that, it still has difference and at times, people just never care about it as long as they got paid well. Salaries are fixed amount in every pay period while wages on the other hand, are amount that were based by the duty hours. In fact, those workers who were paid with wages can have overtime and get compensated.

You certainly have heard about prevailing wages. The US Department of Labor had established this and described this as the standard amount of wage which would be paid to a worker in a certain job. Over times, hourly rates and usual benefits are included in this.

However, the amount will vary depends on your job profession. For example, you are a certified public accountant. Then expect that your rate is really higher than sales clerk. Other than that, the place or region you currently live might have different amount of rate. Yours might be higher than other states.

In determining the rates of prevailing wage, unions and contractors are needed to be surveyed to identify the benefits and wages which were compensated for every job classification. It would be then calculated basing on the data from the survey which contains the job classifications like electricians, carpenters, etc.

In a construction setting, this task will be done by the construction managers. They will perform this task just to ensure that their laborers were being paid. Aside from that, it is a necessary task to make sure that they have followed the regulations. The task includes logging the names of their employees, the job they were assigned to and performed and also their duty hours.

Construction manager will also review the payment claim which was submitted by the contractors. With that claim, the manager will know whether the workers were being compensated with at least smallest amount. Aside from that, the government should really permit this as well.

Aside from that, workers also must understand about the nature of this. With that, they will know if ever their pay is not right. They can make some legal actions against their superiors for their own right. This will also be a reminder for public agencies to comply with regulations.

Now you know a bit of this. Try checking your company if it also follow some rules. Following this will maintain the ethical profession of your job.




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