I and another painter in town(working together) are bidding on a large apartment dormitory building going up at our college. A large construction firm will be building it, own it, and charging the students. they told us to figure our bid on prevailing wage because we will be on payroll. $25 or so base, $40 or so after all the add ons. Apparently if we figure our bid on $40 they are still going to deduct the add-ons and leave us with $25. Is this right? Seeing we are not an employee of them and they are not paying insurance and retirement on us? How should we approach this?
dillingerpaint
Prevailing wage has nothing to do with what you charge now.
Find a labor/employment attorney that understands prevailing wage and pay them to help you. If you don't understand it, it will probably cost you more to get the job than to not get it.
Find a labor/employment attorney that understands prevailing wage and pay them to help you. If you don't understand it, it will probably cost you more to get the job than to not get it.
add ons I'm going to assume are benefits. So if the rate is $25 per hour and benifits are $15 per hour you should be paid $40 per hour, The pay rate, the $25, after 8 hrs or 40 hrs is paid as overtime at time and a half while the benifit would stay as straight time. So a overtime hour would be $37.50 (the rate at time and a halfe) plus the $15 (.constant and not subject to change)---$52.50.
as far as all the other stipulations I don't get ---.bids? And ur on payroll? They're obviously running a scam of some sort. They must be setting it up as they are paying peice work but paying the piecework as payroll. something like that.
Long end short if you are inclined to take the work at those terms bid for ur production at at least $40 per hour. I'd go $60 but that's me. save ur pay stubs and document ur hours and all that. If they screw you (one too many times) on the deal that they agree to then you drop a dime on them to the state labor board.
as far as all the other stipulations I don't get ---.bids? And ur on payroll? They're obviously running a scam of some sort. They must be setting it up as they are paying peice work but paying the piecework as payroll. something like that.
Long end short if you are inclined to take the work at those terms bid for ur production at at least $40 per hour. I'd go $60 but that's me. save ur pay stubs and document ur hours and all that. If they screw you (one too many times) on the deal that they agree to then you drop a dime on them to the state labor board.
On the handful of DB and Little DB jobs that we've worked on, you didn't have to worry about employees calling the Labor Board. They came on the job and interviewed them on a regular basis: How much are you being paid? Has you employer ever asked you to pay him money back after you've been paid? Have you worked any overtime?
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