Wyoming prevailing wage rates

What is the prevailing wage rate in Wyoming?

It depends on the trade. Taking each trade's main rate in each county, DWS's figures run from $12.46 an hour (drapery installer, Albany County) to $102.54 (elevator constructor, Albany County). Each figure is the base wage plus fringe benefits. Pick a county or a trade below for the exact rate.

Rates by trade

Each trade page maps that trade's main rate in every county.

• Asbestos & Lead Abatement Laborer$23.00
• Boilermaker$72.63
• Bricklayer$38.83
• Carpenter$37.96
• Carpet & Soft Floor Layer$34.63
• Cement Mason$28.41
• Drapery Installer$12.46
• Drywall Installer / Lather$50.53
• Electrical Utility Lineman$54.11
• Electrician$83.01
• Elevator Constructor$102.54
• Fire System Installer (Non-Water)$34.85
• Glazier$24.03
• Insulator (Heat & Frost / Asbestos Worker)$38.44
• Ironworker$40.82
• Laborer$22.83
• Millwright$60.97
• Operating Engineer$32.02
• Painter$24.03
• Plumber / Pipefitter$51.65
• Roofer$28.03
• Sheet Metal Worker$39.74
• Teamster (Truck Driver)$29.80
• Telecommunications Technician$43.20
• Terrazzo, Marble & Tile Setter$43.00

How Wyoming's prevailing wage rules work

• Which projects. Construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, alteration or repair of a public improvement fairly estimated to cost $100,000 or more, maintenance excluded, for "the state of Wyoming or any officer, board or commission of the state" (W.S. 27-4-402, -403). The Act doesn't name counties, cities or school districts.
• Exemptions. The Act doesn't apply where it conflicts with federal prevailing wage rules. Inmate labor is exempt, and so is the public body's own employees' work on projects of $25,000 or less (W.S. 27-4-413).
• Which column applies. Building projects use one statewide rate. Heavy and highway work has four columns: state-only projects use the statewide column, and federal highway and construction projects use the Cheyenne MSA (Laramie County), Casper MSA (Natrona County) or the rest of the state. That mapping is our reading of W.S. 27-4-402(a)(ix); the DWS sheet labels columns by area only.
• How rates are set. An annual survey of journeyman wages and fringes, September 1 to August 31. Each wage and fringe carries a method code: 1 majority, 2 significant minority, 3 weighted average, 4 other adjustment (Rules ch. 6).
• Base plus fringe. DWS prints the wage and the fringe separately, with no total; ours is the sum. Bona fide fringes count, and paying more fringe doesn't let an employer cut the base wage (Rules ch. 6 § 9).
• Overtime. The Act sets no overtime rate ("Nothing in this act shall be construed to limit the hours of work", W.S. 27-4-408); federal FLSA overtime applies as usual.
• No residential schedule. Two schedules only: Building Construction and Heavy and Highway (Rules ch. 6).
• Apprentices. Registered apprentices and trainees get at least 60% of the journeyman wage in the first half of the program, 75% until three-quarters done and 90% after, unless the program sets its own rates (W.S. 27-4-403(c)).
• Records and penalties. Contractors keep each worker's name, occupation and wages paid, open to DWS. An underpaid worker can sue for the difference plus attorney fees; willful violations carry up to a $500 fine or 6 months in jail (W.S. 27-4-410 to -412).