Connecticut prevailing wage
State law, federal determinations, and how to find the rate that applies
- Connecticut has its own prevailing-wage law (Conn. Gen. Stat. §31-53), applying to public-works contracts over $1,000,000 new construction / $100,000 remodeling, administered by Connecticut Dept. of Labor, Wage and Workplace Standards Division.
- The U.S. Department of Labor has 24 active federal Davis-Bacon wage determinations covering 8 Connecticut counties as of (latest revision date), each setting county rates by trade for federally funded construction.
- Market context: the average private construction worker in Connecticut earned $1,715/week (≈ $42.88/hour) in Q1 2026, rank #11 of 51 states, per the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages - an industry average, not a prevailing-wage rate.
Recent change: 2025 — coverage of certain off-site fabrication and an annual July 1 rate adjustment took effect (PA 25-168/25-174); the dollar thresholds did not change.
New-construction threshold $1,000,000 since Oct 31, 2017 (P.A. 17-2); remodeling threshold $100,000 since 1991; covers state and municipal projects.
How to find the required rate
- State or locally funded project: use the rate schedules from Connecticut Dept. of Labor, Wage and Workplace Standards Division - official Connecticut prevailing-wage portal.
- Federally funded project: find the county in the Connecticut determination index and open the official SAM.gov document for your construction type.
- Read the classification line - base rate plus fringe (how to read a determination); compute totals and overtime with the calculator.
Federal determinations at a glance
Building: 8 · Heavy: 6 · Highway: 3 · Residential: 7 - every determination and the counties it covers are listed in the Connecticut wage-determination index, each with its full rate schedule mirrored. Service contracts: 32 active SCA determinations for Connecticut.
What construction actually pays here
Separate from any required rate: BLS data puts the average private construction wage in Connecticut at $1,715/week (0.0% YoY) in Q1 2026 - details and history on Connecticut construction wages.
Learn the system
What a prevailing wage is · The Davis-Bacon Act · Certified payroll · Fringe calculator
Data on this page is from U.S. government public-domain sources - free to reuse with credit and a link to prevailingwageindex.com.