Guardrail Installer prevailing wage in Winston County, Mississippi

$11.51an hour, base wage + fringe benefits (our sum)

$11.51 base wage + $0.00 fringe benefits · SUMS2010-050

Winston County uses the same guardrail installer rates as 1 other county. See all of them on one page.

On federally funded or assisted highway construction in Winston County, a guardrail installer must be paid at least $11.51 an hour: a $11.51 base wage plus $0.00 in fringe benefits, under wage determination MS20260127 (modification 1). DOL prints no total, so $11.51 is our sum of the two.

Wage determination MS20260127, modification 1, published May 18, 2026, for highway construction; rate identifier SUMS2010-050 (August 4, 2014). Checked against sam.gov on October 25, 2026.

Davis-Bacon is the only prevailing wage here (federally funded or assisted work). Mississippi has no state prevailing wage law (DOL state table).

This base is below $13.65, the Executive Order 13658 minimum. Contracts that order covers must pay at least that (see the WD's note).

Base wage and fringe benefits: $11.51 + $0.00

The base wage is the taxable hourly wage. DOL prints the fringe benefits as one hourly figure, not itemized; it can go to health, pension, vacation and training plans, or be paid as cash where the state allows.

Base wage (taxable)	$11.51
Base + fringe benefits (our sum; DOL prints no total)	$11.51

When does this rate change?

A contract keeps the wage determination in its bid documents. Modifications published before bid opening apply to it, though one published less than 10 days before can be left out if the agency finds there isn't time to tell bidders (29 CFR 1.6(c)).
DOL changes a WD by publishing a numbered modification on SAM.gov. This page reads the modification named in the Source line; the Mississippi change log lists what each one changed.

How Winston County compares

The main guardrail installer rate in every county that has one, and how the pay splits here and nearby. All bars use the same scale.

Every county in Mississippi

Winston $11.5132152552

$11.42Adams$12.39Forrest

WinstonNearby: Choctaw $11.51, Neshoba $11.68, Oktibbeha $11.51Each column is a group of counties with about the same main rate; its height is how many. 30 counties pay more than Winston, 18 the same, 32 less.

Wage and fringe benefits, nearby

Winston Countybase $11.51$11.51
Choctaw Countybase $11.51$11.51
Neshoba Countybase $11.68$11.68
Oktibbeha Countybase $11.51$11.51

Guardrail Installer rates in nearby counties

Current DOL rates. Davis-Bacon rates are set for groups of counties, so neighbours often share them; the county where the work is done decides.

DOL's guardrail installer rates for Winston County are the same as in 1 other county: Webster.

County	Classification	Base wage	Total rate	vs Winston County
Neshoba County	INSTALLER - GUARDRAIL	$11.68	$11.68	+$0.17
Kemper County	INSTALLER - GUARDRAIL	$11.68	$11.68	+$0.17
Winston County	INSTALLER - GUARDRAIL	$11.51	$11.51
Choctaw County	INSTALLER - GUARDRAIL	$11.51	$11.51	same
Oktibbeha County	INSTALLER - GUARDRAIL	$11.51	$11.51	same
Noxubee County	INSTALLER - GUARDRAIL	$11.51	$11.51	same
Attala County	INSTALLER - GUARDRAIL	$11.42	$11.42	−$0.09

Mississippi guardrail installer prevailing wage by county, with a map

Are you being paid this rate?

Add your base pay to the fringe your employer pays for you, in cash or into plans, and compare the sum with the total. The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division takes complaints: 1-866-487-9243, or dol.gov/agencies/whd/contact/complaints.

Source

U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division (DOL), wage determination MS20260127 Mod 1, published May 18, 2026: sam.gov/wage-determination/MS20260127/1

We read every active Mississippi Davis-Bacon wage determination from SAM.gov's own data and check every number with a second, independent read of the same file. DOL prints no total; ours is base plus fringe. How we check · Download Winston County as CSV · Report an error