Guardrail Installer prevailing wage in Kay County, Oklahoma

$9.70an hour, base wage + fringe benefits (our sum)

$9.70 base wage + $0.00 fringe benefits · SUOK2011-008

Kay County uses the same guardrail installer rates as 16 other counties. See all of them on one page.

On federally funded or assisted highway construction in Kay County, a guardrail installer must be paid at least $9.70 an hour: a $9.70 base wage plus $0.00 in fringe benefits, under wage determination OK20260021 (modification 1). DOL prints no total, so $9.70 is our sum of the two.

Wage determination OK20260021, modification 1, published May 18, 2026, for highway construction; rate identifier SUOK2011-008 (April 18, 2011). Checked against sam.gov on October 25, 2026.

Davis-Bacon is the only prevailing wage here (federally funded or assisted work). Oklahoma's law was invalidated in 1995 and its public-works wage rules are revoked (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: $9.70 + $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)	$9.70
Base + fringe benefits (our sum; DOL prints no total)	$9.70

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 Oklahoma change log lists what each one changed.

How Kay 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 Oklahoma

Wage and fringe benefits, nearby

Kay Countybase $9.70$9.70
Noble Countybase $9.70$9.70
Grant Countybase $9.70$9.70
Garfield Countybase $9.70$9.70

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 Kay County are the same as in 16 other counties: Alfalfa, Beaver, Blaine, Cimarron, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant and 8 more.

County	Classification	Base wage	Total rate	vs Kay County
Kay County	GUARDRAIL INSTALLER (INCLUDES GUARDRAIL/POST DRIVER WORK)	$9.70	$9.70
Noble County	GUARDRAIL INSTALLER (INCLUDES GUARDRAIL/POST DRIVER WORK)	$9.70	$9.70	same
Grant County	GUARDRAIL INSTALLER (INCLUDES GUARDRAIL/POST DRIVER WORK)	$9.70	$9.70	same
Garfield County	GUARDRAIL INSTALLER (INCLUDES GUARDRAIL/POST DRIVER WORK)	$9.70	$9.70	same
Payne County	GUARDRAIL INSTALLER (INCLUDES GUARDRAIL/POST DRIVER WORK)	$9.70	$9.70	same
Alfalfa County	GUARDRAIL INSTALLER (INCLUDES GUARDRAIL/POST DRIVER WORK)	$9.70	$9.70	same

Oklahoma 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 OK20260021 Mod 1, published May 18, 2026: sam.gov/wage-determination/OK20260021/1

We read every active Oklahoma 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 Kay County as CSV · Report an error