Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

letter to the editor:

Prevailing wage, fair wage not the same

In reading the article “Build schools without gutting fair wages” (Las Vegas Sun, Feb. 10), it becomes apparent to this layman that they either don’t know how prevailing wages are calculated and work to harm taxpayers or — more likely because of their positions — are simply being disingenuous.

Prevailing wages, a label the writers deliberately avoided and relabeled as fair wages, are calculated in a manner to establish higher than prevailing wages. Furthermore, to imply that anything different from the prevailing wage is an “unfair” wage and leads to “unsafe” construction by unskilled laborers is simply false.

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