The originally published Washington State “Prevailing Wage Rates for Public Works Contracts for King County,” effective 03-02-08, contained multiple errors in the wage rates. On or about March 7, 2008, the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries posted a corrected version of the King County prevailing wage rates to their website that included changes to the wage rates for at least 21 classifications including for the following major classifications:
- Electricians – Powerline Construction
- Elevator Constructors
- Fabricated Precast Concrete Products
- Industrial Power Vacuum Cleaner
- Modular Buildings
- Landscape Construction
- Plumbers & Pipefitters
- Power Line Clearance Tree Trimmers
The revised document is also labeled as effective 03-02-08 and there is no explanation from Labor and Industries on the errors on their website. I don’t know if there are similar errors for other counties. You may want to investigate this for other counties.
If you are in King County, you may want to review the bidding documents for any project that you bid with the 03-02-08 wage rates before March 7th. Compare the hard copy of the wage rates with the wage rates included online at L&I’s website now. In the event you find that your bidding documents included the prevailing wage rates that L&I has since corrected, you may want to issue a no-cost change order incorporating in the correct wage rates.
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