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Davis-Bacon prevailing wage rates as a spreadsheet: pulling SAM.gov wage determinations by county
Anyone who bids federally funded construction in the US runs into Davis-Bacon wage determinations. Each one is a long text document on SAM.gov listing every craft (electricians, laborers, operators and so on) with a base hourly rate and a fringe rate for a given state, set of counties and construction type.
Estimators usually open the determination, scroll through dozens of classifications and retype them into a spreadsheet. When a modification is published, they do it again.
What...
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