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Wash. Rev. Code § 39.12.020 (2026)

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The hourly wages to be paid to laborers, workers, or mechanics, upon all public works and under all public building service maintenance contracts of the state or any county, municipality or political subdivision created by its laws, shall be not less than the prevailing rate of wage for an hour's work in the same trade or occupation in the locality within the state where such labor is performed. For a contract in excess of ten thousand dollars, a contractor required to pay the prevailing rate of wage shall post in a location readily visible to workers at the jobsite: PROVIDED, That on road construction, sewer line, pipeline, transmission line, street, or alley improvement projects for which no field office is needed or established, a contractor may post the prevailing rate of wage statement at the contractor's local office, gravel crushing, concrete, or asphalt batch plant as long as the contractor provides a copy of the wage statement to any employee on request:
(1) A copy of a statement of intent to pay prevailing wages approved by the industrial statistician of the department of labor and industries under RCW 39.12.040; and
(2) The address and telephone number of the industrial statistician of the department of labor and industries where a complaint or inquiry concerning prevailing wages may be made.
This chapter shall not apply to workers or other persons regularly employed by the state, or any county, municipality, or political subdivision created by its laws.
[ 2007 c 169 s 1; 1989 c 12 s 7; 1982 c 130 s 1; 1981 c 46 s 1; 1967 ex.s. c 14 s 1; 1945 c 63 s 1; Rem. Supp. 1945 s 10322-20.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 33 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1985–2026 · leading case: Everett Concrete Prods., Inc. v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 748 P.2d 1112 (Wash. 1988).
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Everett Concrete Prods., Inc. v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 748 P.2d 1112 (Wash. 1988). · cites it 8× “RCW 39.12.020. This case presents the issue of whether the prevailing wage law applies to the off-site manufacture of prefabricated items for use on a particular public works project.”
Silverstreak, Inc. v. STATE DEPT. OF LABOR, 154 P.3d 891 (Wash. 2007). · cites it 5× “¶ 5 Roughly one year after completion of the project and after Suppliers had been paid, the Department issued a notice of violation under RCW 39.12.020, part of Washington's prevailing wage act, along with a letter stating that prevailing wages were owed to the end-dump truck…”
Silverstreak, Inc. v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 159 Wash. 2d 868 (Wash. 2007). · cites it 5× “¶5 Roughly one year after completion of the project and after Suppliers had been paid, the Department issued a notice of violation under RCW 39.12.020, part of Washington’s prevailing wage act, along with a letter stating that prevailing wages were owed to the end-dump truck…”
Nat'l Elec. Contractors Ass'n v. Riveland, 5 Wage & Hour Cas.2d (BNA) 1322 (Wash. 1999). · cites it 6× “RCW 39.12.020 Prevailing Wages on Public Works DOC argues that it need not pay inmate labor the prevailing wage as otherwise required by RCW 39.”
Drake v. Molvik & Olsen Elec., Inc., 726 P.2d 1238 (Wash. 1986). · cites it 10× “RCW 39.12.020. The statute provides a methodology for determination of the various elements of the prevailing wage rate, but these are matters not here in dispute.”
City of Spokane v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 998 P.2d 913 (Wash. Ct. App. 2000). · cites it 8× “010, and is therefore not exempt from prevailing wage under RCW 39.12.020. V The terms “ordinary maintenance” and “maintenance” in RCW 39.”
Spradlin Rock Prods., Inc. v. Pub. Util. Dist. No. 1, 164 Wash. App. 641 (Wash. Ct. App. 2011). · cites it 3× “RCW 39.12.020 provides in part: The hourly wages to be paid to laborers, workers, or mechanics, upon all public works and under all public building service maintenance contracts of the state or any county, municipality or political subdivision created by its laws, shall be not…”
SPRADLIN ROCK v. Pub. Util. Dist. No. 1, 266 P.3d 229 (Wash. Ct. App. 2011). · cites it 3× “RCW 39.12.020 provides in part: The hourly wages to be paid to laborers, workers, or mechanics, upon all public works and under all public building service maintenance contracts of the state or any county, municipality or political subdivision created by its laws, shall be not…”
Superior Asphalt & Concrete Co. v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 7 Wage & Hour Cas.2d (BNA) 1714 (Wash. Ct. App. 2002). · cites it 2× “” RCW 39.12.020. This statute is based, in part, on the federal Davis-Bacon Act, 40 U.”
Supporters of the Ctr., Inc. v. Moore, 80 P.3d 618 (Wash. Ct. App. 2003). · cites it 6× “010 and RCW 39.12.020. We hold that it is and reverse.”
Superior Asphalt & Concrete Co. v. L&I, 49 P.3d 135 (Wash. Ct. App. 2002). · cites it 2× “The Washington Prevailing Wage Act provides in part: "The hourly wages to be paid to laborers, workers, or mechanics, upon all public works .”
Superior Asphalt & Concrete Co. v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 929 P.2d 1120 (Wash. Ct. App. 1996). · cites it 3× “It states in part: The hourly wages to be paid to laborers, workers, or mechanics, upon all public works . . . shall be not less than the prevailing rate of wage for an hour’s work in the same trade or occupation in the locality within the state where such labor is performed.”
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