A.) The system contains both a minimum hourly
wage requirement and requirements for overtime pay after the
employee works the "prevailing hours" for the day
or week, which can be a maximum of eight hours per day or forty
hours a week. Note that this differs from the regular state
overtime requirements, which require overtime only after forty-eight
hours in a week and contain no daily overtime provision.
B.) When the information from the departments survey has been
collected, the department determines which single wage is being
paid to the largest number of employees, and that wage becomes
the prevailing wage for that job in that place. Note that this
number is not an average, but is instead the mode of all wages
paid in the area, which can be higher or lower than the average.
