The wage floor of a service bid, by county and occupation
A service contract covered by the Service Contract Act must pay each occupation at least the wage and the fringe its wage determination sets for the county where the work is done, and a construction contract must pay the Davis-Bacon rates. A price built under that floor is a price you cannot perform at. Wage determinations keeps the Department of Labor determinations as SAM.gov publishes them, with the rates read into a table.
1,840 awarded rates from 212 companies
A state, a county, service or construction
The Wage determinations screen is under Proposal in the menu, beside the price volume. Pick a state and a county, and service or construction. The determinations that apply there are listed, the newest revision first.
Open one and each occupation is a row with its code, its title and its hourly rate, with the health and welfare fringe, the vacation and holiday terms, and the full text of the determination in a fold below. Every determination links to its own page on SAM.gov.
- One occupation looked up across every determination in a state
- A newer revision marks the one it replaces
- Davis-Bacon classifications with their rate and fringe where the text gives both
a missing requirement costs the bid; an awkward one costs nothing
Read the rate in your price against the floor
Your price volume carries a rate for every labor category. Where the work is covered, each of those must be at or above the wage determination for the occupation it maps to, plus the fringe. A rate under the floor is a cost you have to carry for the life of the contract, and an evaluator who knows the determination will see it.
Read the price volume beside the determination for the place of performance, and beside what the same job is paid in that market, before the number goes out.
- The floor, from the determination
- The market, from occupational wages
- The ceiling, from the GSA labor rates
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How a determination is read
A Service Contract Act determination lists each occupation by a five-digit code, its title and an hourly rate, and states the fringe in its text: health and welfare by the hour, and the vacation and holidays an employee is owed. Those are read into the table, with any footnote mark kept. A Davis-Bacon determination lists classifications with a rate and a fringe, often in groups, and each is read where a line clearly gives both.
The whole text is always shown beside the table, because the text is what binds and a table read from it is a convenience. A determination based on a collective bargaining agreement is kept as text.
Where it stops
Wage determinations comes with every paid plan. The determination in your solicitation, by its number and revision, is the one that binds you: check it against the one here. The rates are read from the text and the text is shown beside them. Nothing here is legal advice about whether the Service Contract Act or Davis-Bacon covers your contract.
Related
- Bid worksheetThe price volume the floor applies to.
- Occupational wages NewWhat the same job is paid in the market.
- Labor ratesThe ceiling rates awarded on the GSA schedules.
- The platform NewWhere this sits among the eight parts of the product.
See who was last awarded in your NAICS
Every code, every buying office, every vendor and every recompete, organized from the federal record and read nightly. Open it with a plan.