Wages and Benefits Construction Industry Test Survey: Jacksonville, FL., April 1998

摘要

This test survey of wages and benefits in the construction industry was conducted in the Jacksonville, FL, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The MSA includes Clay, Duval, Nassau, and St. Johns Counties, FL. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Employment Standards Administration (ESA), agencies of the U. S. Department of Labor, are testing the feasibility of publishing wage and salary data and benefit cost and incidence data for blue-collar construction occupations in the construction industries. This test will assist ESA in determining prevailing wages and benefits for construction workers employed on federally funded projects within specific areas. The Davis Bacon Act and related acts require contractors and subcontractors performing work on federally financed or assisted construction projects to pay employees the prevailing wage rates and benefits for the area. The Act applies to all construction contracts over $2,000 with the United States or the District of Columbia. The Act also stipulates that a continuing program for obtaining and compiling wage rate and benefit information be established.