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Desk reference · not legal adviceEvery threshold/Labor standards/Checked 2 Nov 2026
Davis-Bacon (construction wage rate) coverage
$2,000
- Citation
- FAR 22.403-1; 40 U.S.C. 3142(a)
- Last moved
- Long-standing; no recent change
- Checked
- 2 November 2026, against the codified FAR and, where it leads the FAR, the statute
- Note
- Set by statute and excluded from inflation adjustment by 41 U.S.C. 1908(b), so it did not move in October 2025 while nearly everything around it did. It is also why the micro-purchase threshold for construction subject to these wage rates is $2,000, not $15,000.
A repair job on a federal building in Ohio: repainting and minor carpentry, with laborers working on site. Above what contract amount must the contract carry the prevailing wage rates set by the Secretary of Labor?
$2,000 (FAR 22.403-1; 40 U.S.C. 3142(a)), as of 2 November 2026.
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