Maintaining Project Wage Decisions

In AASHTOWare Project, wage decisions include federal, state, or local rules dictating the wage rates contractors must pay their employees for work on agency contracts.

Federal wage decisions are issued by the U.S. Department of Labor under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts. The Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor determines the prevailing minimum wage rates and fringe benefits for each geographic area to be paid on federally funded or assisted construction projects.

General wage determination decisions and modifications contain no expiration dates and are effective from their date of notice in the Federal Register, or on the date written notice is received by the agency, whichever is earlier. It is the responsibility of your transportation agency to ensure that the proper wage decisions are applied to each federally-funded construction contract. For contracts funded by non-federal funds, state or local wage decisions may be applied.

Wage decisions are recorded at the project level for both proposals and contracts. The Project Wage Decision Overview contains all the wage decision information for the project. To access the component, click the Wage Decisions Quick link on the Project Summary component.

Note: Wage decision information is available only to agencies that license Civil Rights & Labor. If your system does not include Civil Rights & Labor, you cannot access the Project Wage Decision Overview.

The upper part of the Project Wage Decision Overview component contains general information about the project. You can view, but not change information in the following fields:

Below this project information is a list of all the counties in the project. You can view but not change the following information for each county in the list:

The lower part of the component displays a rolling list of the wage decisions currently associated with the project. Each row represents one wage decision record. Each row displays an Actions button and allows you to view information in the following fields:

To delete a wage decision, select Delete from the Actions menu on the wage decision row. The system shades the row gray to indicate it is marked for deletion. To reverse the delete action, click the Undo button. When you are finished, click the Save button to apply your changes.

Adding a Wage Decision

To add one or more wage decisions to the project, follow these steps:

On the Project Wage Decision Overview, click the Select Wage Decisions button.

The system displays a modal window for selecting wage decisions.
In the Select Wage Decisions modal window, first locate the wage decision you want to add to the project by typing criteria in the Quick Find search box or by clicking Show first 10.

The system lists all the wage decisions that meet your search criteria.
Click the row for each wage decision you want to add.

The system adds a check mark beside each record you select and shades the row. To cancel a selection, click the selected row again.
Click the Add to Project button.

The system closes the modal window and takes you to the Project Wage Decision Overview with the new wage decisions added to the list.

Note: When adding a wage decision to a project, the wage decision's Issuing Authority must match one of the project's Fund Types.
When you are finished maintaining wage decisions for the project, click the Save button to apply your changes.

The system displays a message to confirm that your changes were saved in the database.