# How to read Washington prevailing wage intents — prime, sub, amounts — wa-public-works-records

> What an intent to pay prevailing wages is, why amounts are not added up, and what this site leaves out.

## How to read these records

### The intent

A “statement of intent to pay prevailing wages” is filed by each employer on a public works project, before it is
paid: the prime contractor, and every subcontractor at every tier. It names the awarding agency, the contract, and
the company that hired the filer. It is a declaration made before the work — the matching “affidavit of wages paid”
comes after, and is a different file.

### Prime or sub

“Prime” means the intent is the prime contractor's own. “Sub to …” names the company that hired the filer.

### Amounts

Each amount is what the filer declared on that intent. They are not comparable across filings and are never
added up here: the raw file contains obvious typing errors, and a contract amount can be repeated on several
filings.

### Agency names

Typed by the filer: the same city or school district can appear under several spellings, each with its own
page.

### After the work, and apprenticeship

A record also counts the affidavits of wages paid the contractor filed after its projects, its projects as prime
contractor in L&I's project file, and — matched by business name — the apprenticeship programs it is a training
agent of.

### What is not here

- Project addresses: some projects are repairs in private homes.
- Contract titles that do not clearly describe public work: a title is published only when it contains a common
word of the construction vocabulary; otherwise it reads “(title withheld)”. Agencies that mostly fund repairs in
private homes have all their titles withheld.
- E-mail addresses and phone numbers in the state file.
- Contractors that never filed an intent, wage rates, affidavits and wage complaints.
- Filings dated outside 2000–2027 in the file are kept without a date.

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Fonte: https://data.wa.gov/d/t9je-9qwa
Recolha: 2026-10-01