I can't seem to find the answer to my question any easy way so I thought maybe someone would know on here. I work directly for a heavy civil contractor in Pennsylvania doing bridge and roadway layout, staking, and anything else you could think of on the job site. I came across the prevailing wage coverage on the PSLS website. I am woundering if I should be getting prevailing wage? I am currently on salary and other people I know that work for contractors as surveyors are salary as well. I was just woundering if the contractors have some kind of way of getting around this or they are screwing us over.
I will try to answer to the best of my ability, leaving prevailing wages out of the equation and just addressing the salary vs hourly or should we say exempt vs non-exempt. If you are in the field, running a crew, touching equipment, supplies, or anything else like that, you cannot be considered an exempt employee. If you are in the field, overseeing others that do those things but in a supervisory role only, you can be exempt. Your boss may try to tell you otherwise, but he would be wrong and screwing you, and there is recent precedent to that fact.
If the flagger, water truck driver and laborer are making more than you, then you are getting screwed! But remember you are a PROFESSIONAL! My 2 cents, Jp
You need a line in some regulation book to tell you what you should be making?
I think he's looking for a line that tells him if the law mandates his wages on PW work. As one of my former employers found out, getting it wrong can cost you your business...
I dont know, I think the PW question is second to his exempt status. If he truly is exempt , then the PW is not applicable. If he is gets his exempt status righted, he may find that they pay him more than PW. If not, then is the time to investigate that further. IMO
If the specications in the bid documents call for it, they should spell out what the wages for each position are. If the contracts are funded by state and/or federal dollars theres a good chance that the hourly rates are prevailing wages.
> I dont know, I think the PW question is second to his exempt status. If he truly is exempt , then the PW is not applicable.
Not True, even as an owner I need to show prevailing wages for myself on certified payroll when I work in the field on a PW job.
I would agree with you that the GC would have a real hard time justifying a salaried position for a field surveyor. Even when I worked as licensed project surveyor for a large engineering firm the professional staff was paid an hourly wage. We just did not get any overtime.
