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The Federal Davis-Bacon Act: The Prevailing Mismeasure of Wages Sarah Glassman, MSEP Michael Head, MSEP David G. Tuerck, PhD Paul Bachman, MSIE Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University 8 Ashburton Place, Boston, MA 02108 Web: email: bhi@ phone: 617-573-8750 fax: 617-994-4279 February, 2008 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 8 Part 1: Prevailing Wage Method of Determination 13 Planning and Scheduling the Surveys 13 Conducting the Surveys 15 Population Surveyed 16 Survey Format 16 Survey Response Rates 17 Clarifying and Analyzing the Respondents’ Wage Data 18 Determining the Prevailing Wage 18 Issuing the Wage Determinations 19 Evidence of Davis-Bacon Act Prevailing Wage Inaccuracies 20 Alternatives to Davis-Bacon Prevailing Wages 22 The BLS Method 23 Improvements in Accuracy 25 Part 2: A Comparison of BLS and DBA Wages 26 Comparison of Descriptive Statistics 26 Means Tests 31 Cost to Federally Funded Construction 32 Part 3: Prevailing Wages in the States 33 Conclusion 38 Appendix 39 Methodology 39 Paired Means Test 45 Weighted the Wages 48 Cost to Federally Funded Construction 49 MSA Wage Data 51 Table of Tables and Figures Table 1: Threshold Amounts for State Prevailing Wage Laws 9 Table 2: Comparison of Hourly Wage Descriptive Statistics 26 Table 3: Metropolitan Areas with Differences between DBA and BLS Wages 29 Table 4: Selected State and Federal Prevailing Wages Compared to BLS Wages 35 Table 5: BLS vs. Davis-Bacon Job Descriptions 40 Table 6: Adjustments made while Constructing DBA Dataset 41 Table 7: Paired Means Test (one-tail) 46 Table 8: Variance Test 46 Table 9: Means Test 47 Table 10: Cost of Construction Projects Covered by the DBA ( in millions of dollars) 50 Table 11: Hypothetical Costs by MSA (in millions of dollars) 50 Table 12: Davis-Bacon Prevailing Wages by Metro Area 51 Table 13: BLS Average Wages by Metro Areas 54 The authors would like to thank Allison Kelly-Hawke, Alfonso Sanchez-