Published date: 03/12/2025
Aliecia Taormina, CCEP, MCA has over 20 years of experience in construction (including a role as a Senior Compliance Manager of a Fortune 300 contractor), accumulating extensive prevailing wage and Davis-Bacon knowledge over her career.
Tune into this month’s installment of our Live Ask the Expert Series – now in video format! Our Davis-Bacon expert and Master Compliance Administrator, Aliecia Taormina, addresses a few of our readers’ questions regarding:
- Consultants employed on a federally funded project
- Reporting requirements for employees in multiple job classifications
- Applying union wage rates to Davis-Bacon projects
We also received an extra question that wasn’t covered in this month’s live series:
Question
For new Green Occupations that have been assigned an O’NET SOC Code but are not yet included in the SAM.gov Wage Determination, how would we determine the wage rate for a federally funded project? For example, what would I pay someone classified as a Solar Photovoltaic Installer (O’NET-SOC Code 47-2231.00)? What would their Davis-Bacon wage rate be if one of these installers was working in Allen County, Indiana?
Answer: Good question. In my experience, solar projects usually go with “heavy” wage determinations. For Allen County, Indiana, that’s IN20250006. I would just like to point out, however, that if you find any job classifications missing from this wage determination, you’ll need to submit a conformance request using an SF-1444 form.
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Got a burning labor compliance question? Submit it anonymously to our live submission form and it might be answered in an upcoming edition of Ask the Expert! You can also check out our past entries here.
Want an opportunity to get questions like these and other topics answered in person? Check out our events page for more information about Ignite 2025, our biannual educational and training conference. A perfect opportunity for you to hear from industry experts and expand your prevailing wage knowledge.
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