Engineering

MnDoLI is performing their annual prevailing wage survey.  Submit your info by June 5 at the following website: COMMERCIAL, RESIDENTIAL AND HIGHWAY/HEAVY CONSTRUCTION PREVAILING WAGE SURVEY.

If you need a PIN and key or a paper survey, email the Survey Team at pwsurvey.dli@state.mn.us.  

This is the info they sent in the newsletter:

The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) is surveying wage rates paid to employees on commercial, residential and highway and heavy type construction projects in the state to determine prevailing-wage rates. Wage data should not include owners, supervisors, helpers or apprentices.

Qualifying private or public projects worked on during the past 12 months may be submitted. Reports are due by the close of business Friday, June 5, 2026.

• Report only work performed between April 7, 2025, and June 4, 2026.
• Do not report owners, supervisors, helpers or apprentices.
• Workers may be reported more than once, but only once for each project.
• Workers must have worked at least eight hours on the project.
• Submit a separate form for each project.
• Commercial and residential projects must include a complete street address.
• Highway and heavy projects must include the nearest street address or intersection.
• Highway and heavy projects must have a total cost of $25,000 or more.
  • Commercial or residential projects must have a total cost of $2,500 or more.
  • Commercial construction includes buildings and multifamily complexes and structures of three units or more.
  • Residential construction applies to single-family and two-family homes only.
• Review classification titles under Minnesota Rule 5200.1100.

Duluth City Code 1959 stipulates that all laborers and mechanics working on city projects $2,000 or higher be paid prevailing wage. This includes anyone performing manual labor on the project site, including administrative staff – owners, partners, executives, managers, etc. - when they are performing manual tasks, as well as truck drivers with few exceptions.  Also, all contractors and subcontractors working on the project (including trucking companies transporting materials with few exceptions) are required to submit documentation of prevailing wage payment.   The documents we need to review payrolls are broken down as follows (depending on project funding source):

• Payroll forms- you may use the federal, MnDOT, or your own payroll form, as long as it contains the required data as provided for on the MnDOT or federal payroll forms.
• Statement of Compliance:
  • City-funded Engineering project: you may choose to attach the MnDOT Statement of Compliance or the Federal Statement of Compliance.
  • Federal-funded: you must attach the federal statement of compliance
  • MnDOT-funded or federal funded through MnDOT: you must attach the MnDOT statement of compliance.

These are the payroll forms and statements of compliance:

• • • MnDOT payroll form
    • MnDOT payroll form instructions
    • MnDOT statement of compliance form (PDF)
    • MnDOT Statement of Compliance form (Word- fillable)
    • MnDOT statement of compliance instructions 
    • Federal payroll form with federal statement of compliance
      
      
• Month-end trucking reports: if the prime contractor and/or any subcontractors hire MTOs (multiple truck operators) and/or ITOs (independent truck operators), they must submit a MnDOT month-end trucking report each month. 
• • MnDOT month-end trucking report documents and instructions
• ITO (independent truck operator) documents- the cab card, insurance, and CDL for each ITO is required once for each project (this includes ITOs hired by the prime contractor and/or any subcontractors).
• Apprenticeship documents- paperwork for each apprentice is due the first time they appear on the payroll.
  • Minnesota apprenticeship ratio guide
• Overtime- OT is required on hours over 8 in a day and 40 in a week.  However, if the project is City funded only, we will allow alternate OT schedules per union agreement.  The state does not have this allowance, so you must adhere to the 8/40 rule on all projects with state funding.
• EEO Documentation (for local federal and general obligation funded construction projects over $100,000 awarded by a city or county agency):
  • Use OCR Salesforce system: https://www.dot.state.mn.us/civilrights/salesforce-instructions.html
  • EEO reports are NOT required on City or state funded projects.  The City does have a Community Benefits program, but does not require the EEO-13 monthly report.
• Contractor affidavit form- must be submitted at the end of the project before the final estimate is paid.
  • Contractor affidavit instructions

Funding outside of MnDOT or Engineering may have other requirements, which would be listed in the special provisions for that project.  If you have questions, please contact our office below.

Submitting your payroll documents:

Subcontractors: please submit your documents to the prime contractor and they will forward the information to the contracting agency.

Prime contractor: please submit your documents to the contracting agency.  If it is a City of Duluth PW&U Engineering project, you can send your documents to:

Angela Herbert
Email: aherbert@duluthmn.gov
Mail:
Attn: Angela Herbert
City of Duluth Public Works & Utilities Department- Engineering Division
City Hall, Room 240
411 W 1st St
Duluth, MN 55802

For questions, please call: 218-730-5081

If you are not sure which City of Duluth department/division is the contracting agency, please contact Purchasing (purchasing@duluthmn.gov or 218-730-5340) or Engineering and we will assist you.

See the following links for more information regarding prevailing wage:

• Wage Decisions:
  • MN Department of Labor and Industry Highway/Heavy Prevailing Wage Decision (for most City and state funded Engineering projects)
    • For archived wage determinations, contact the engineering office for a copy.
  • MN Department of Labor and Industry Commercial Prevailing Wage Decision (not used often in Engineering, but applicable for projects involving buildings)
  • Federal Wage Determinations
  • MnDOLI prevailing wage survey

• MN Truck Rental Rates
• Informational web pages:
  • US Department of Labor Davis-Bacon and Related Acts
  • Prevailing Wage Resource Book
  • MnDOT Labor Compliance Website
  • MnDOLI Prevailing Wage Information
• Legislation:
  • Minnesota Administrative Rules- prevailing wage determinations- see part 5200.1000 – 5200.1120
    • Master Job Classifications
  • 29 CFR 5-Labor Standards Provisions Applicable to Contracts Covering Federally Financed and Assisted Construction
  • Final Rule: Updating the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Regulations | U.S. Department of Labor (dol.gov)
• City of Duluth Contract Information and Community Benefits Documents​
• City of Duluth Project Labor Agreement (PLA)