Pennsylvania ’s Prevailing Wage is an arbitrary inflated wage rate raising the cost of public construction projects 20% - 25%. This wage rate is usually determined by the union scale rate, which makes up less than 23% of Pennsylvania ’s construction industry.
How did Prevailing Wage Originate?
Pennsylvania ’s Prevailing Wage Act was passed in 1960 and was taken from the Federal Government’s version, Davis Bacon. Davis Bacon legislation was passed in the 1930s by two northern elected officials to successfully increase construction wages to a level that would not allow southern construction companies to compete in the north. This discriminatory practice has been expanded into Pennsylvania and other states and sometimes referred to as “Baby Davis Bacon.”
Davis Bacon/Prevailing Wage Assault on Pennsylvania Taxpayers
Read the entire article recently published in the April issue of the Spokesman monthly magazine.
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