Poll: Police Detail or Road Flagger

[smoterh.livejournal.com]

[Poll #1577209]

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[gruene.livejournal.com]

It was mostly in the rural areas that you would see the kids doing the job. I grew up in Berkeley (Alameda County), but check somewhere like Siskiyou County to get a sense of what the wages are like there.

hate to burst your bubble:

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=Davis-Bacon&docid=CA20100029

$40.82 for flag person in Siskiyou County, for federally funded projects.

$40.90 for any other projects.
http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD/Determinations%5CNorthern%5CNC-023-102-13.pdf

Re: hate to burst your bubble:

[gruene.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm just saying what my experience was. Maybe the high school kids were making 40 bucks an hour. I didn't ask them.

Re: hate to burst your bubble:

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

How long ago was that?

Re: hate to burst your bubble:

[gruene.livejournal.com]

Maybe 10 or 15 years ago. It was something I noticed multiple times though on family road trips in the Summer. I assume the prevailing wage laws are fairly old, so they would have applied back then too.

research fail

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

I can't find any data (so far) on prevailing wage laws in CA and whether they included (California's term) flag persons, for 2000 and 1995.

Hey, it could be worse: NJ prevailing wage for flaggers is $51.25.

Re: research fail

[gruene.livejournal.com]

Eh, don't worry about it.

I appreciate you looking into these things. People often make arguments on the basis of one or two anecdote, when the reality is often quite different.

Re: research fail

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

The common anecdotal analogy is to equate flaggers with crossing guards.

In a number of states, they aren't legally equivalent for the purposes of state labor law.

Go here:
http://www.gpo.gov/davisbacon/davbacsearch.html
leave it as All States, limit it to Highway Construction
keyword Flag, and you get about 30 results, about half of them are flagger, or flag person wage rates that the Feds have to pay.

best bet, hit ctrl-f then flag when looking at each document.