Prevailing wage laws actually hurt growth and development. At a company where 50% of the work is prevailing wage the people with the most seniority take these jobs. This reduces the wages for regular jobs because the senior people are willing to negotiate for less wages because they know most of the time they will have prevailing wages. The newer employees wages are pushed down too with no hope of getting prevailing wage projects. This also makes it difficult to get experience working on massive state an federal projects and instead building driveways for residential customers. If projects were simply bid out the senior people would demand higher regular wages and a reduced disparity between the senior and junior employees. Also this costs the goverment billions every year and raises taxes



