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Current CA DIR rates and federal Davis-Bacon rates by craft, classification, and county — verified against the official published documents, with the source linked on every result. All 58 counties: main trades, subtrades, and all four federal construction types.
Why trust these numbers
Most “rate databases” are typed in by hand or scraped and hoped-for. A wrong prevailing wage is a legally fineable underpayment, so this library holds itself to a harder standard: every rate must recompose the DIR's own published total to exact arithmetic before it can be served — including the percentage-of-base fringe components the DIR defines only in footnotes. Rates that don't reconcile are quarantined, ambiguous coverage is refused rather than guessed, and the whole library re-checks itself against the DIR's live documents. The federal side holds the same bar: every Davis-Bacon rate is re-verified line-for-line against the live DOL general decision on SAM.gov, and the library watches for the weekly revisions. Read the full verification methodology →
This is the same library Bullwork's payroll engine pays from: prevailing-wage time entries pull the verified rate for the craft, county, and work date — state, federal, or the composite when a job is subject to both — flow into paychecks with California overtime rules applied, and land on a WH-347 or DIR eCPR filing that reconciles to the pay stub to the cent. Registered apprentices are paid from the verified DIR apprentice schedules the same way.
Questions
Directly from the California DIR’s published prevailing wage determinations — the main-trade determinations for Northern and Southern California and the per-county subtrade determinations, plus their predetermined increase notices. Every rate links to the exact DIR document it came from.
Deterministically. Each rate must recompose the DIR’s own published total to exact arithmetic (base + itemized fringes, including percentage-of-base components defined in the DIR’s footnotes). A rate that doesn’t reconcile is quarantined and never shown. When a determination splits a county by sub-county boundaries, the finder says so rather than guessing.
Yes — determinations marked ** carry scheduled increases, and this lookup applies the step in effect for today automatically. Where the DIR has published the increase amount but not yet its wage/fringe split, the split is provisional and the total is exact.
Yes — switch the toggle to Federal Davis-Bacon. Those rates come from the active DOL general decisions on SAM.gov for every California county across all four construction types (Building, Residential, Heavy, Highway), and each is re-verified line-for-line against the live decision text. DOL revises decisions weekly; the library checks for new revisions.
Then BOTH determinations apply and the paid package must satisfy each — base at least the higher base, total at least the higher total. Bullwork computes that composite automatically when capturing prevailing-wage time on a dual-jurisdiction project.
This finder shows the straight-time journeyman rate. Overtime multipliers, shift differentials, and apprentice schedules are on the linked determination. Inside Bullwork, DAS-registered apprentices are paid from the DIR apprentice schedules (verified the same way), and California overtime rules are applied automatically.
Treat it as a fast, verified reference and confirm against the linked DIR document — the determination in effect on your project’s bid advertisement date governs, which may differ from today’s. Inside Bullwork, projects pin their governing determination so the right version is served for the life of the job.
Bullwork pays these rates automatically, applies CA overtime, and generates upload-ready certified payroll that reconciles to your books.
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